La lucha con la zozobra. La libertad bajo palabra en los poetas Xavier Villaurrutia, Gilberto Owen, Jorge Cuesta y Octavio Paz
Monterrey, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, 2022. First Edition. Paperback. 153p., indices, wrps. New. Item #79753
ISBN: 9786072716742
"La Lucha Con la Zozobra" is a book by a poet about other poets. In it, the paths in search of poetic freedom that were followed in Mexico since the beginning of the 20th century are reviewed. Specifically, those of Xavier Villaurrutia, Gilberto Owen, Jorge Cuesta and Octavio Paz as a response that opens to the present and inaugurates a new notion of poetic identity, apart from Romanticism. Recreated from many writings of that time, this work observes the intellectual atmosphere in which these desires for freedom arose in Mexico; and also discovers a game of mirrors between authors who see themselves through what others say about them, leaving aside the preponderant and anecdotal voice.
Above all, this book is a careful reading of texts that are worth stopping and thinking about, in which we see how poetry makes its way by itself and through the new forms that its language discovers. Alicia García Bergua invites the reader to delve into the plot and decipher it with her.
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