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The humble style of antipoetry

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  • João Gabriel Mostazo Lopes Universidad de São Paulo
No. 15 (2020): América Latina en los largos años sesenta: entre reforma y revolución
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2020.58631

Abstract

Following a clue by Claudia Gilman (2000) on the characterization of the “long sixties” as an epoch of social and cultural convulsion, this article aims at the investigation of how the works of Chilean poet Nicanor Parra (1914-2018) are constituted, in this same period, not by immediately adhering to the social convulsion but by taking anachronism as a critical tool to read one’s own time. This anachronism, in Parra’s poetry, is translated into the two main figures of his works by the late 70’s: Christianity and ecology. In this article we leave ecology aside to investigate how Parra’s poetry is related to the Christian tradition of the preacher, with respect to what Auerbach (2012) identifies as a “humble style” in early Christian texts. We see this both with regard to some early antipoems from the 50’s and 60’s as well as to the preaches of the Cristo de Elqui, the main character featuring in two books published by Parra in 1977 and 79, in which the figure of the preacher is of most importance

Keywords:

Nicanor Parra, 1960's, Antipoetry, Power, Freedom

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Mostazo Lopes, J. G. (2020). The humble style of antipoetry. Meridional. Revista Chilena De Estudios Latinoamericanos, (15), 99–126. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2020.58631
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