Title

Written In San Juan De La Cruz: Un Jardin Y Un Desierto By Giovanni Quessep

Abstract

Beginning with the examination of one of the mature literary works by Colombian poet Giovanni Quessep, Un jardín y un desierto (1993), I intend to highlight its poetic inscription into the tradition of San Juan de la Cruz. This observation has a double aim. Firstly, I point out a model of lyrical quality - resistant, because it has been written during decades of domestic war in Colombia - which places it in the creative line of the fable, with a germinal value. Secondly, although less visible due to the brevity of the text, I attempt to contest Octavio Paz's dualistic vision of 'the tradition of rupture', since modernity is instead a fluid, and selective, integration of present and past. Any split between the two time frames is the artificial task of art critics. Thus, as a general rule, avant-garde movements did not break with the past, but selected their own past.

Publication Date

1-1-2010

Publication Title

Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

Volume

87

Issue

3

Number of Pages

365-378

Document Type

Review

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2010.6

Socpus ID

78049429028 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/78049429028

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