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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

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Birth: 1651-11-12 , Nepantla de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Death: 1695-04-17 , Cidade do México
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz is one of the most important literary figures of the Hispanic American Baroque. A New Spain poet, playwright, and essayist, her work covers a wide range of themes, from profane and divine love to social criticism and the defense of knowledge. She stood out for her prodigious intellect and her audacity in challenging the conventions of her time, especially regarding the role of women in society and education.
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a fruitless enterprise, a great mistake, a decrepit frenzy, and rightly viewed, a corpse, some dust, a shadow, mere nothingness.

 

Sonnet 145 (on a portrait), translated by Edith Grossman

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