Realism and avant-garde in alejandro rubio's poetry

Abstract

This essays seeks to review the links between realism and avantgarde in Alejandro Rubio's poetry, one of the most prolifics authors in argentine nineties poetry. Within this realm four moments are emphasised: Attention to social impoverishment, plastic use of clichés, negation proyected in the sintagmatic level of language, and a playfull use of repetition and non-sense. These literary strategies rely heavily on several aspects rooted in the peronist experience (social vindicteviness, mistrust on the cultural order, class-conflict, etc.). The controversies displaed by this poetical approach is thematic and inmmanent, classic and experimental: From this stand-point, every speech use, every cultural aspect (high or low) display a great number of formal risks aimed towards towards any sublime expression sedimented in the poetical speech. This gesture implies in itself a critical programm with a secular reach that transforms language in an object of permanent dispute.