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Poètica de la Frialdad: La Narrativa de Virgilio Piñera

Poètica de la Frialdad: La Narrativa de Virgilio Piñera

Valerio-Holguirin Fernando
Valerio-Holguin, Fernando

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ISBN10: 0761805494
ISBN13: 9780761805496
Publisher: Univ Pr Of Amer
Published: Dec 30 1996
Pages: 128
Language: English
Virgilio Piñera, author of a large collection of poems, short stories, novels, plays, and essays, is one of Cuba's most important writers. Poètica de la Frialdad offers a new reading of Piñera's narrative. During the 1940's, when Caribbean writers such as Alejo Carpentier and Josè Lezama Lima were elaborating the aesthetics of magic realism, the neo-baroque and negritude, Piòera's tendency was opposite. Some of his books have titles such as Cuentes frìos (Cold Stories), Aire frìos (Cold Air) and Helada zona (Frozen Zone). For Piñera, coldness is a poetic principle that governs not only his narrative but also his poetry and plays, and consists of the exposition of pure facts. This exposition of pure facts reveals Piñera's obsessive concern with style. Coldness in Piñera's writing is a privileged image of the society and the epoch where he lives. At times, coldness refers to masochism. Coldness and cruelty function as the denial of sensuality, as a condition for masochistic pleasure. Coldness is also an image of culture and its discontents in postmodern society.

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