%0 artículo original %A Herrera Valenciano, Minor %D 2018 %G spa %T Classical Tradition and Utopia in La caída del águila, by Carlos Gagini %U https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/letras/article/view/11515 %X Carlos Gagini proposes the construction of a utopian space, Coco’s Island. His novel La caída del águila [The Fall of the Eagle] evokes, in a reading from the classical tradition, the myth of Atlantis, an example of a utopian space in antiquity. Thus, this analysis establishes the relationship between the Atlantis myth, mentioned in Plato’s dialogues Critias and Timaeus and the idea of a utopian space developed by this Costa Rican novelist.