Neo-Baroque in three bars

Abstract

Taking into account the various points of view or theories regarding the socalled neobarroco in relation to the history of Latin American Poetry and poetics, we consider this tendency to be different from both Modernism and Tradition, but with a particular relationship with rupture and literary legacy. This essay intends to provide a textual analysis in order to enlarge and contribute to the interpretations of the neobaroque poetics. The point of departure are the Cuban Severo Sarduy as the beginning of this poetics; the Argentine Néstor Perlongher and his linking to the environment and regional traditions (Río de la Plata and neobarroso) and the Uruguayan Eduardo Espina in his unending search for a poetic form based on a precise structure of the significant drift.