Lorenzo García Vega, poeta sin paisaje Public
Pintado-Burgos, Margarita Mercedes (2013)
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Abstract
The first dissertation entirely devoted to the Cuban poet Lorenzo García Vega (1926-2012), with whom I corresponded and collaborated from 2009 until his death in 2012, explores the consistency and endurance of an author who has been marginalized and censored by the Cuban government, the academy, and his peers for defying the national, cultural, and political discourse of his time. I argue that, through his pursuit of the poetic, García Vega seeks to understand himself. His work is a struggle to be faithful to himself and to his vocation as a marginal writer.
To achieve a comprehensive view of García Vega's work, the dissertation focuses on four books from crucial stages of the writer's career: Suite para la espera (1948), Espirales del cuje (1951), Los años de Orígenes (1978), y El oficio de perder (2004). In the first chapter I deal with the first two books and García Vega's time as part of Orígenes (1944-56), the poetry journal and group led by Lezama Lima. I describe García Vega's relationship to the group and his response to its politics. While the poets of Orígenes were writing to affirm the nation, its culture, and tradition, García Vega wrote to report the chaotic situation of the Republic. In the second chapter, I turn to Los años de Orígenes and focus on García Vega's overt critique of the Cuban revolution, the intellectual class, the academy, and the role of the writer. I suggest that in this book he writes for and anticipates reconciling with a future generation. The third chapter is devoted to El oficio de perder, the author's memoirs. I argue that with this book García Vega proves to be a paradigmatic writer who succeeds in integrating his life and writing. His writing is a reflection on and continuation of his living. He is a poet and his own poetic creation. This integration of life and writing and the conversion and commitment it requires are a radical form of political resistance, which García Vega regards as his artistic vocation.
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Introducción ………………………………………………………………………….…….….. 5
Capítulo I: Una joven promesa: Lorenzo García Vega llega a Orígenes………………….…...29
1.1 Una circunstancia hostil ……..……………………………………………………...34
1.2 Suite para espera, o la aventura del recomienzo ………….………………………..48
1.3 Espirales del cuje, ¿ofrenda origenista? ….…………………………………….…..67
Capítulo II: El libro que regresa: Los años de Orígenes y el lector futuro………………….…79
2.1 Los años de Orígenes. Confesiones desde el reverso ……………………..………..90
2.2 Julián del Casal, Lezama, Orígenes: el fantasma de la tradición ……………........101
2.3 Escrituras del No: derecho a la marginalidad ……………………………….....….115
2.4 El lector posible …………………………………………………………...……....132
2.5 De Orígenes a Diásporas: la llegada de los jóvenes …………….………...……...142
Capítulo III: El oficio de perder, o el Poeta en su Laberinto ……………………………......151
3.1 La expresión del límite: un más allá de las palabras ………………………….….161
3.2 Los orígenes de la vocación ………………………………………………....…...175
3.3 Mirar una colchoneta …………………...……………………………………..….186
Conclusión: "Mañana será otro día"………………..…….……………………………...…...198
Bibliografía …………………………….……………………………………………..….…...205
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