Macedonio Fernández: an Incessant Impossibility

  • Silvio Mattoni
Keywords: Poetics, Aesthetics, Philosophy, Literary Critics

Abstract

The following essay proposes to read some central poems in the work of Macedonio Fernández, trying to relate them to certain aesthetic ideas of the author, expressed in essays referred to the forms of the literature. Also, there will appear the paradoxes and consistency that exist between the philosophical thought of Macedonio Fernández –his original "empiricism of the unreal thing", so to speak–, his aesthetic speculations and his poetical writing.

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Published
2010-11-06
How to Cite
Mattoni S. (2010). Macedonio Fernández: an Incessant Impossibility. Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana, 39, 75-93. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ALHI/article/view/ALHI1010110075A
Issue
Vol. 39 (2010)
Section
Articles

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