ZULAI Y YONTÁ DE MARÍA FERNÁNDEZ LE CAPELLAIN: MÁS ALLÁ DEL CANON LITERARIO COSTARRICENSE.

The short novels Zulai and Yontá by Costa Rican writer María Fernández Le Capellain, published in the early twentieth century, are part of global aesthetic, ideological, and spiritual trends that had a considerable influence on the elites of the time (Theosophy, Freemasonry, etc.). However, these can also be studied within the processes of construction of the Costa Rican literary canon as an example of exclusion or invisibility at different levels. This article aims to analyze a series of discourses produced by Costa Rican literary criticism that led to the consideration of the author's work, in the best of cases, as a minor phenomenon within the development and evolution of national letters, excluded from the project of national identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]