Francisco Rodríguez Barrientos (born 1956) is a Costa Rican writer and sociologist.

Early life and education

Francisco Rodríguez Barrientos was born in 1956. He grew up in San Carlos, a rural county in the northern plains of Costa Rica. He holds a licentura (Sociology) from the

University of Costa Rica The University of Costa Rica (Spanish: ''Universidad de Costa Rica,'' abbreviated UCR) is a public university in the Republic of Costa Rica, in Central America. Its main campus, Ciudad Universitaria Rodrigo Facio, is located in San Pedro Mo ...

. Rodriguez teaches sociology at the

Costa Rica Institute of Technology The Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC) () is a university in Costa Rica specializing in engineering and advanced science and research, modeled as an institute of technology. Its main campus is located in the Dulce Nombre District, Cartago, Du ...

. Although he has published articles and books on sociological elements of development, he is chiefly known as writer of

aphorisms An aphorism (from Greek ἀφορισμός: ''aphorismos'', denoting 'delimitation', 'distinction', and 'definition') is a concise, terse, laconic, or memorable expression of a general truth or principle. Aphorisms are often handed down by tra ...

and a poet.

Aphorisms

The main body of aphorisms' books of Rodríguez Barrientos includes, among others, the following titles: "Tardes de domingo" (Ediciones Perro Azul, 2003), "El ángel de la salmuera" (Ediciones Perro Azul, 2004), "Serpigo" (Ediciones Perro Azul, 2005), "Fauces" (Ediciones Arboleda, 2006) and "El sopor de la canícula" (Ediciones Arboleda, 2007)., "Obsesión del asco" and "El resto es vicio" (2016).

References

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