Abstract

CARCANO, Enzo. Jacobo Fijman's mystic and marginal poetry: a literary approach. CELEHIS [online]. 2018, n.35, pp.1-15. ISSN 2313-9463.

The categories with which Jacobo Fijman's poetry is often characterized, madness and mysticism -that, in certain cases, are confusingly said about the author and of his work at the same time-, have motivated some critics to think that this production answers to what Noé Jtrik called "spontaneous and wild marginality", the one that does not propose anything in relation to the principles of the literary canon, which allegedly does not know. In this article, a summary of the main ideas of our doctoral thesis, we expose the opposite hypothesis: fijmanian poetry is a marginal project, or a marginalizing one, because it is not put aside from the centre, but its own constitution happens in the borders and it opposes the aesthetics of its time. This project -which begins in the firsts poems and ends, transformed, in those written during the stay of the poet in the psychiatric hospital- reaches its highest point in Hecho de estampas and Estrella de la mañana, where what I call - following Michel de Certeau's theoretical proposal- fijmanian mystic is materialized, this is, a particular modus loquendi that expresses the absolute desire for the Other.

Keywords : Fijman; poetry; mystics; marginality; Certeau.

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