Bécquer and the Symbolism of José María Eguren

Guizado-Yampi R. · e-Scripta Romanica (2025) · DOI: 10.18778/2392-0718.13.03

Resumen

Critics have pointed out that Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer’s Rimas left their mark on the works of José María Eguren (Lima, 1874-1942), who read it during his formative years. This article analyzes the modes and implications of said imprint. It examines the parallels in the ideas of both authors, and the marks of the work of the Sevillian in the compositional guidelines and in the characteristic vagueness of Eguren. Therefore, it is explained how this imprint intervened in the formation of the sensitivity and style of the Lima author, and was decisive in his assimilation of the symbolist aesthetics. That is, how Eguren found in certain points of Bécquer’s poetics a known way in his mother language to extrapolate elements of French symbolism. © by the author, licensee University of Lodz – Lodz University Press, Lodz, Poland.

Instituciones: Universidad de Piura