BETWEEN THE CULT AND THE CULTIVATION OF THE SELF: THE OTHER PATH OF THE PERUVIAN AVANT-GARDE OR THE CASE OF ALBERTO HIDALGO

Suárez-Trejo J.T. · Revista Chilena de Literatura (2024) · DOI: 10.4067/s0718-22952024000200193

Resumen

This article argues that the poetics of Alberto Hidalgo (Arequipa, 1897-Buenos Aires, 1967) has as its utopian horizon the cultivation of the self, experienced as a tireless poetic-existential self-design. In the first part, the limits of the interpretation that José Carlos Mariátegui makes of the poet from Arequipa in his Siete ensayos de interpretación de la realidad peruana (1928) are exposed. In the second part, the relations between the self and the world in Hidalgo’s poetics are described and analyzed, panoramically, on the basis of their similarities and differences with the poetics of his rival and contemporary Oliverio Girondo. Likewise, and for the first time, Hidalgo’s poetic libertarianism contained in his Tratado de poética (1945) and in Biografía de Yomismo (1959) is made visible as a poetic-existential route to deal productively with a reality that had experienced the terrors of totalitarianism.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos