De por qué Juan Ramón Jiménez renunció a ser novelista: el poeta y su teoría de la novela

Abstract

This article has attempts et explain the reason behind the renunciation of the novel by Juan Ramón Jiménez, apart from possessing a notable capacity for invention and deeply involved in this period in expressing his innovative ideas, Juan Ramón came uo against an impossible obstacle in his plans to develop and express his ideas trough the novel. His aim was to write novels in his capacity as a poet. As a result he wished to create novels as prolongation of his poems. The poet realised the futility of his undertaking when he saw that his major aesthetic norms did not coincide with the genre of the novel, not even in the «novela lírica» and Platero y yo which remain his closest prose expression to poetry.