The Puerto Rican Literature Project

The poet and essayist Manuel Martínez Rosselló was born in 1862 and died in 1931. His book Galénicas (M. Aguilar, 1930) brings together just over a hundred short articles, published in different magazines and newspapers in Puerto Rico. Among them are: “Cuadernismo,” “Higiene y anti higiene,” “Doctor en ciencias ocultas,” “Como ají,” and “El curanderismo indecente y supersticioso.” 

Works Cited

Rivera de Álvarez, Josefina. Diccionario de literatura puertorriqueña. Tome 1, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1979.

Rivera de Álvarez, Josefina y Manuel Álvarez Nazario. Antología general de la literatura puertorriqueña. Ediciones Partenón, Madrid, 1982.