Abstract

ACEVEDO-ZAPATA, Luis Alejandro. Interview with Jorge Hernández “Piel Divina”: Infrarealist poet and character in The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño. Connotas. Rev. crit. teór. lit. [online]. 2023, n.26, pp.391-419.  Epub June 26, 2023. ISSN 2448-6019.  https://doi.org/10.36798/critlit.v0i26.455.

The literary universe of Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) is expansive. As the years go by, academic attention grows with a view to the insertion of new dialogues and critical horizons that continue to focus on both his literary work and his figure as an author. In Los detectives salvajes, “Piel Divina” is a key character in the plot, but few know that he is a literary transfiguration of the Mexican poet and sculptor Jorge Hernández “Piel Divina”, whose work has been published in Hora Zero: los broches mayores del sonido (2009) and in Perros habitados por las voces del desierto. Poesía infrarrealista entre dos siglos (2014). Bolaño decided to use the nickname that to this day provides him with identity, is part of his authorial name and refers to a person who is a key piece to better understand the artifices and the historical-literary context behind the double award-winning novel. Born in Pochutla, Oaxaca, in 1953, he is a founding member of Infrarrealism, an avant-garde literary movement that emerged in the mid-1970s and was led by Roberto Bolaño and Mario Santiago Papasquiaro. The following interview is the result of an autobiographical conversation about some ideas, details and experiences that help to better understand some little known aspects of the Bolaño phenomenon.

Keywords : Mario Santiago Papasquiaro; infrarrealismo; Mexican poetry.

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