La cultura española de la transiciónalgunas consideraciones en torno a la 'reprivatización' de la poesía

Abstract

This article assumes and attempts to nuance the concept of “reprivatization of literature,” coined by José-Carlos Mainer. Although generally accepted that the poetry of new democracy discredits social utopias with the consequent abandonment of the public scene, both phenomena are not necessarily related to conformity or to an abdication of collective ideals. On the contrary, many of the new authors believed that poetry needed to rise to the evolving circumstances. The desubstantialization of politics and the ideological collapse did not mean the demise engagement; poets found new and extended ways of engagement congruent with the general orientation of poetry and the establishment of a new paradigm in Spanish letters. Before dissolving into the poetry of experience, the poetic engagement of the immediate post-Franco regime was mostly embodied in the formula of the so-called “other sentimentality,” whose subjective epic contradicted the modes of expression of civic consciousness enabled by social poetry of the recent past.