Cien años contra el fantasma del Caudillo
Santiago de Querétaro: Universidad Autonoma De Queretaro, 2021. First Edition. Paperback. 55p., illus., wrps. New. Item #79738
ISBN: 9786075135496
All the naive, rhetorical and utilitarian reasons why "La suave patria" was a "current" text, from the consecration of López Velarde in the Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres to the exacerbation of the populist ingredient of the Mexican State in the seventies - going through the triumphant PRIism of half a century-, are now the reasons why it has ceased to be. That is to say, it is very difficult at this moment to recognize oneself in the simple or simple appearance expressed in "your surface is corn" or in "the holy smell of the bakery". And it is not that these experiences no longer exist. They are there, but now many others coexist, new, more powerful and terrible. However, if we admit that there is another force in the poem that the author did not let us see but that acts from the bottom of the text,
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