Anuario de Estudios Filológicos (May 2023)
«¿Adónde te escondiste, patria, y me dejaste con gemido?»: La recepción de San Juan de la Cruz en Citas y comentarios de Juan Gelman
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to study the reception that the Argentinian poet Juan Gelman makes of the poetry of San Juan de la Cruz in his work Citas y comentarios. In this collection of poems, Gelman resorts to intertextuality by combining the particular symbology and vocabulary of 16th century mystical poetry with the essential nostalgia of tango lyrics to account for an experience that, like the union of the soul with God, surpasses the limits of language: exile. Within this array of influences, we will analyze the unquestionable mark left in the texts by the major poems of the Carmelite saint and his rhetoric of ineffability.
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