Identidad, representación y agotamiento. Inflexiones de la "experiencia" en Jaime Gil de Biedma y Luis García Montero
ISSN: 1475-3839, 1478-3398
Year of publication: 2014
Volume: 91
Issue: 3
Pages: 275-294
Type: Article
More publications in: Bulletin of Hispanic studies ( Liverpool. 2002 )
Abstract
This article establishes a comparison between the projects of Jaime Gil de Biedma (1929-1990) and Luis García Montero (1958-), examining how the distinctive role of language in the poetic configuration of experience and character results in a different dealing with a specific class consciousness and, explaining the divergent stance that both poets show when facing the threat of exhaustion in the face of textual identity. Firstly, a comparison of their essays identifies a deep consciousness of linguistic autonomy in Gil de Biedma, which is remarkably softened in García Montero's neoclassical reading of this tradition. Secondly, their different ways of dealing with the instances representing personal identity conform to distinctive experiences of class consciousness and offer information about their creative evolutions, not only about Biedma's posthumous voice and final silence but also about García Montero's latest attempts at renovation.