Estudios de Teoría Literaria (Sep 2016)
Read the poem in “ese mar único, infinitesimal, llamado oído”. Notation of a triumph
Abstract
Drawing form musical theory, this paper aims to offer a musical reading of two works by Argentine poet Arturo Carrera: Children's Corners (1989) and Las cuatro estaciones [The Four Seasons] (2008). Beyond the intertextuality, and we could also say, the “intersonority”, with the pieces composed by Debussy, in the first case, and Vivaldi, in the second, this reading allow us to critically reflect on two complex theoretical notions that intersect both artistic experiences: time –which appears as a remain and as rhythm– and space –which appears both in the idea of musical notation and in the simultaneous construction of the poem. Moreover, since this intersection is also methodological, another compelling issue is to show that what was read and heard with the musical notation of the early twentieth century was precisely the fantasy of beating the directionality of progressive time, the time of the century. How to write then the triumph of the progressive directionality of time? Which senses does this writing touch in Arturo Carrera’s work?
