Realism and avant-garde in Alejandro Rubio´s poetry

Abstract

This essays seeks to review the links between realism and avantgarde in Alejandro Rubio´s poetry, one of the most prolifics authors in argentine nineties poetry. Within this realm four moments are emphasised: attention to social impoverishment, plastic use of clichés, negation proyected in the sintagmatic level of language, and a playfull use of repetition and non-sense. These literary strategies rely heavily on several aspects rooted in the peronist experience (social vindicteviness, mistrust on the cultural order, class-conflict, etc.). The controversies displaed by this poetical approach is thematic and inmmanent, classic and experimental: from this stand-point, every speech use, every cultural aspect (high or low) display a great number of formal risks aimed towards towards any sublime expression sedimented in the poetical speech. This gesture implies in itself a critical programm with a secular reach that transforms language in an object of permanent dispute.