Del olvido imposible a la nada indudable en las Soledades de Góngora

Criticón

关键词: Góngora Luis de;    oblivion;    memory;    sleep;    nothing;   

DOI  :  10.4000/criticon.3394

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This essay examines the presence of oblivion in the Solitudes of Góngora. First at all, I consider some theoretical foundations about memory and forgetfulness and I return to a controversial critical debate about the verses 732-742 of the first Soledad. After the analysing and interpretation of some passages of the poem where concepts like sleep, silence, night, memory and nothing are recurrent, I propose the following exegesis is proposed: the protagonist’s mission is to obtain the forgetfulness of his love’s sorrows through a long pilgrimage along time and in a far but natural environment full of life; in those circumstances fixed by the classical tradition at least since Ovid, but opposed to the prodigy of the surrounding life that Góngora describes and narrates, both nature and writing appear in certain fragments of the poem as allies of memory and rebellious to the strength of oblivion. Everything seems to conspire against the task of the pilgrim. As we don’t know what could be the continuation of the poem, which according to an original project should end in the loneliness of the wilderness, we must conclude that, in the verses that have come to us, the mission of the hero seems doomed to failure.

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