%0 Journal Article %T Tr¨®picos tristes y paradis¨ªacos %A Torres %A Vicente Francisco %J LiminaR %D 2011 %I Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas %X this paper continues the author's reserch on how is percived in latin american spanish speaking literary circles the tropics as a topic. given that this study would not becomplet without mentioning the writers called naturalists who saw the tropics as paradise itself, this paper also includes a dissentig opinion, that of the anthropologist claude l¨¦vy-strauss, who never equated tropics whit paradise. %K naturalist writers %K travelers %K tropics %K anthropologists %K paradise. %U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1665-80272011000100002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en