Trópicos tristes y paradisíacos

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 lévy-strauss, who never equated tropics whit paradise.