Abstract

GUILLARD, Amandine. Animalidad y bestialidad: la expresión del instinto en la poesía de Juan Gelman. Letras [online]. 2015, vol.86, n.124, pp.269-288. ISSN 2071-5072.

This article deals with the concepts of animality and bestiality in Juan Gelman’s poetry. Although rarely studied, they are nonetheless part and parcel of his poetry, as they express some of the poet’s preoccupations: dictatorship, exile, absence, death, love. It will be interesting to see why Gelman uses these two aspects to reflect basic preoccupations and contradictory feelings: from the executioners’s bestiality to the mothers’s utmost pain, not to mention the numerous feelings of the poet himself, exiled from his native country and an orphan to his son, as he calls himself

Keywords : Animality; Bestiality; Poetry; Juan Gelman; Argentinian dictatorship; Exile.

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