TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lenz, Markus Alexander
T1  - THINKING THE CONTEMPORARY BY THE LYRICAL: THE WORK OF NICANOR PARRA AND ROBERT BOLANO
JF  - Alea : estudos neolatinos
N2  - Two Chilean poets with equal and yet different conceptions of poetry: While Nicanor Parra is considered one of the most important Latin American lyricists of the 20th century, the poetry of novelist Roberto Bolaño only finds little attention in comparison to his highly successful prose. Yet both authors give constructive answers to the possible functions of contemporary poetry under an epistemology based upon materialism that affects language as emancipatory capacity of each human individual. A comparative reading of two volumes of their poetry, Parra’s well known Poemas y antipoemas (1954) and Bolaño’s last ‘collection of poems’ Tres (2000), does not only demonstrate some structural links. The urgent question concerning the benefits of literature among globalized societies, involving highly complex cultural and linguistic identities, could benefit from a revived awareness towards poetry as historically relative formalization of language, but also as an efficient instrument to reflect the restrictions of language in times of its economic and cultural-industrial standardization.
KW  - Nicanor Parra
KW  - Roberto Bolano
KW  - Tres
KW  - Antipoetry
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1590/1517-106X/182-313
SN  - 1517-106X
SN  - 1807-0299
VL  - 18
SP  - 313
EP  - 328
PB  - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Faculdade de Letras
CY  - Rio de Janeiro RJ
ER  -