Acta Poética (Feb 2015)

The Inner Ear. About the Meeting between Cristina Campo, María Zambrano and Marius Schneider

  • Victoria Cirlot

DOI
https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ap.2014.2.450
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 35, no. 2

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This text concernes the encounter, anecdotic as well as theoric, of CristinaCampo, María Zambrano and Marius Schneider. The author refers to the inklingsof the contact between them (the colaboration in Sur and Conoscenzareligiosa magazines, the frequenting of Campo and Schneider, the correspondencebetween her and Zambrano), nevertheless, she also signs the shared interestin the organ of hearing, in addition to the similarities of thought fromtheir respective disciplines: the symbolic approach to the auditive organ, itssuperiority over vision, the associations between music and word, the antithesisamong music and stone, the complementing between internal hearing anddestiny, as well as the need of an attentive audition to listen to the internal voice and one’s destiny. In the case of Cristina Campo, the musicality of herwriting style is also discussed.

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