Estudios de Teoría Literaria (Sep 2016)
Music in the word: La noche del incendio, by Antonio Aguilar
Abstract
Music in literature can be approached from different angles. In the case of the collection of poems La noche del incendio, by Antonio Aguilar, we find music as form, melody, rhythm and theme, without forgetting that poetry itself involves music. We intend to approach the work of Antonio Aguilar from this interdisciplinary and interartistic perspective. The importance of music whether it is heard, produced in various ways, sung, hummed, heard on the radio... appears repeatedly among the author’s verses. We thus intend to address this collection and provide an overview of the ways that recent literary works are taking and how they show, among other issues, this interrelation between music and literature whereby they somehow “hug” and merge to become a single entity. To do this, we will follow the parameters postulated since the times of Horatio with his maxim "ut pintura poesis" and the Trattato della Pittura by Leonardo Da Vinci, together with relevant ideas from Literary Theory which examine this relationship between the arts.
