Abstract

CHOUCINO FERNANDEZ, Ana. From irony to silence: melancholy in Jaime Sabines. Lit. mex [online]. 2018, vol.29, n.2, pp.111-132. ISSN 2448-8216.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.litmex.29.2.2018.1132.

Abstract: In the world of Mexican poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries an intense melancholy can be seen. Poets such as Ramon López Velarde, Xavier Villaurrutia, Efraín Huerta, Jaime Labastida, Francisco Hernández or Marco Antonio Campos, among others, may be clearly set into this poetic mode. Each one of these authors has dealt with one or several of the many expressions related to melancholy, from tedium to erotic impulse, patriotic passion or more often, anguish provoked by illness, suicide and death. Given my belief that Jaime Sabines’work springs from melancholic humor, particularly from some of its symptoms described in philosophy, sociology or anthropology, and since this may explain his retreat from writing quite a few years before his death, this article approaches Sabines´ poetry taking into account some of the most relevant and well-known studies on melancholy (Agamben, Bartra, Paz, Castro Santiago or Arancibia).

Keywords : Jaime Sabines; irony; skepticism; Melancholy.

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