Abstract

LUCIFORA, María Clara. Cernuda vs. Cernuda: the silenced recognition. CELEHIS [online]. 2022, n.43, pp.61-70. ISSN 2313-9463.

If we superficially read Cernuda'sautopoetic texts and follow the signs left by him, we could conclude that this poet-critic was marginalized by the Spanish literary field. There is no recognition, no company; just loneliness and the feeling of being isolated. However, if we look at some signs of his autopoetics and read them in relation to the his public and private writing, together with some events in the literary world, we will see that this conclusion is not entirely true. This is the point at which we can observe that, in the autopoetic essays, there is an operation of autofiguration, whose objective is to elaborate an interested image (in terms of aesthetic project and literary field) of the author In the case of Cernuda, he intended to align himself with the set of "geniuses" of history who had not been sufficiently appreciated by his contemporaries, but by subsequent generations. This work traces the series of recognitions that Cernuda obtained throughout his life, as well as the way in which he managed the reference to them in his own texts, to account for this self-construction operation carried out by the Sevillian in his autopoetics.

Keywords : Cernuda; Autopoetics; Author Figure; Spanish Poetry.

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