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Abstract The Costa Rican novel was born at the beginning of the 20th century, anchored to a distinct literary realism which, since then, has been the literary canon built into a national sense of identity. Almost a century later, in 1980, a split occurred with the appearance of new topics and literary forms from vanguard movements. A rapprochement to the particular narrative of Rafael Angel Herra, one of the pioneers of this late 20th century vanguard movement, involves an analysis of the themes and forms that gradually drive his break from realism and —with fantastical and mythical resources as well as the erudite usage of intertextuality as a creative principle— build the figure of a monster that distances itself from its realist predecessors and incorporates itself comfortably into postmodern literature. 

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