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Question SA-9. Here is the text reference (p. 133/1):

Among the Costumbristas, Ricardo Palma of Peru distinguished himself by creating his own sub-genre, the "tradición" ("tradition"). At the risk of great simplification, the "Peruvian Tradition" created by Palma can be described as a short historical anecdote, frequently with a surprise ending or a moral which captures a small vignette of life in colonial Peru. Palma himself described his recipe for the "tradición" as follows: "The tradición is a romance and is not a romance; it is history and it is not history. The form has to be light and airy; the narration, quick and humorous. What I had in mind was to sugar-coat pills and give them to the people to swallow, without letting any silly nun's scruples slow me down. Some lying, and even a little more than some, with an equal dose of truth, as infinitesimal as it might be: a lot of care and polishing of the language; and there you have the recipe for writing the tradiciones."