摘要：La literatura ofrece a los diferentes lectores posibilidades infinitas de significados. Permite reconstruir historias y mundos; proyectarse e imaginarse en diferentes representaciones: permite distanciarse para descubrir la otredad y cada lector descubrirse así mismo. La literatura no existe para confrontar o dar una postura equilibrada, todo lo contrario, su propósito es amenazar el equilibrio del lector, desestabilizarlo; conmoverlo. Hacerlo flexivo. El presente ensayo tiene varios fines: 1) acercarnos a un escritor costarricense de amplia trayectoria y cuya influencia en el teatro ha sido importante: Daniel Gallegos. 2) Proponer a los docentes una forma de análisis que facilite el estudio de la obra dramática y promueva la reflexión entre sus estudiantes. Para tal efecto, se ha seleccionado la obra El séptimo círculo. ¿Por qué esta obra en especial? En estos tiempos, cuando el ser humano se ve inmerso en un ambiente convulso, cuando está a punto de perder la fe y la esperanza, es bueno detenerse y analizar su situación. Hay verdades complejas que se alojan en lugares terribles y la función inquietante del arte (en este caso específico, el teatro), es seguir recordando eso.
其他摘要：Literature offers its readers infinite possibilities in meaning. It allows them to reconstruct stories and worlds, and to project or imaging themselves in various representations. I also allows them to step away so as to discover the otherness and so that each reader can discover himself. Literature does not exist to comfort us or to keep a balance. It is otherwise; its purpose is to threaten the reader's balance, to shake him, to move him deeply, and to make him reflect. This essay has several objectives: 1. to bring us near a Costa Rican writer of broad experience and who has had great influence in the country's theater: Daniel Gallegos; 2. to propose a form of analysis that will help students approach plays more easily and that will promote the reflection among them. The analysis will be presented with the play El séptimo círculo (The Seventh Circle). This particular piece of writing was chosen because when humankind is immersed in such confusing times as we are now, when we are about to lose faith and hope, we need to stop and thing about the situation. Very complex truths can be found in terrible places and it is art's disturbing function (in this case, the theater) to keep reminding us of that.
