Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz

Enigmas Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz

Poetry. Women's Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal. The twenty quartets comprising Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's ENIGMAS were written for a group of learned Portuguese nuns in 1693 and were only discovered in 1968. Each enigma is structured around wordplay and poses a paradoxical, undecipherable riddle, one whose possible solution readers continue to ponder.

... such writing unfolds in an eternal present, remaining relevant, ongoing, and interactive every time a reader chooses to read it.--Kathleen Rooney, Chicago Tribune