Abstract

This paper proposes an interpretation of Enric Casasses' La cosa aquella (1982) and Victor Sunyol's Ni amb ara prou (1984). Focusing on the production and reception of the long poems that these books include, it offers a new dialectical definition of experimental poetry. This kind of definition deals with the relative distance between the experimental texts and the so-called traditional ones, and with the way this distance affects their interpretation. More specifically, this paper studies the reformulation of the topics associated with the idea of road or voyage in the texts of Casasses and Sunyol. The analysis of this issue is focused on two different aspects: a) the change from the traditional lyrical subjectivity to a kinetic subjectivity, a fluent poetic enunciation that produces different approaches to the other that occupies the position of the reader; and b) the interruption of the idea of physical and semantic sense attributed symbolically to the literary idea of the road. The analysis of the reformulation of this topic allows us to draw some conclusions about the links between signification and experimentation, and about the conventional and cognitive strategies that the readers have to activate when they deal with texts such as Casasses' and Sunyol's.

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