De ruinas y cristales: una poética del tiempo en los textos de Aníbal Núñez

Abstract

This article offers a reading of the poetical texts of Aníbal Núñez (Salamanca, 1944-1987) focused on the study of two of its most important images, the ruin and the crystal. In the ruin motif many different literary traditions (Baroque, Romantic, Postmodernist) coincide, establishing a dialog with the corpus of the twentieth century. On the other hand, crystals as a heuristic model refer to Gilles Deleuze’s esthetics. Firstly, the analysis will provide the bases of a «syntax of the imaginary» in Nuñez’s poetry, accounting for the logic that rules the relations among images gathered around both nuclear metaphors (Burgos 1982). Secondly, it will trace the «anthropologic journey» of ruins and crystals as dynamic images that arise from the poem and reach subjective and social imaginaries (Durand 1960, 1993). In conclusion, some guidelines will be proposed in order to define the poetics of time inscribed in the Spanish author’s texts.