※　対極を生きる詩人――エウヘニオ・フロリット、調和への探求　※

本書は、20世紀を代表するスペイン系アメリカ詩人エウヘニオ・フロリットの詩業を包括的に読み解く研究書です。著者M・ダンブロージオ・セルボディディオは、フロリットの詩作品において、実存的にせよプラトン的にせよ神秘的あるいは歴史的にせよ、「両極性」という観念が全作品を貫く根源的な原理であると論じます。古典主義とロマン主義、形式主義と表現主義との弁証法的対立は、詩人の内面に巣くう二元性の外的な現れにすぎず、矛盾の糸から織りなされたその詩人の本性の一方で、その著作には共通の根、すなわちこれらの差異を解消・和解、あるいは耐え忍ぶための調和への探求が見出されると著者は指摘します。純粋詩の形式主義、詩人の美的救済の思想、感覚がとらえた世界を再構成する想像力と知性の理想化作用（『トロピコ』に見られるように）、抽象化と距離化による情熱の制御（エロスの主題）、生き方としての死という不関与の選択（タナトスの主題）、追憶の技法による過去の想像的改訂、そして恩恵に満ちた自然、理性の法則、信仰の教えの称揚に至るまで、フロリットが行使した多層的な統御のあり方が丹念に検証されています。書籍の言語：英語　(SBC: 105759)

[対象地域、年代、研究分野]
キューバを対象地域とし、20世紀のエウヘニオ・フロリットの活動期を分析対象とする本書は、ラテンアメリカ詩研究、比較文学研究、詩学・美学研究の分野に位置づけられます。ラテンアメリカ詩研究の専門家をはじめ、比較文学研究者、詩学・美学研究者を対象としています。
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Description:
For the past few decades, Eugenia Florit has been considered an important Spanish-American poet because of the intrinsic value of his poetry, a corpus that has served as a leading testimony of the many configurations poetry has adopted during the twentieth century. In her study of Florits poetry, Professor Servodidio provides a cohesive view of his poetic production. Her basic premise is that in Eugenio Florit’s poetry, the notion of polarity - whether understood existentially, Platonically, mystically or historically - is a seminal one, governing his entire opus.

The dialectical opposition between Classicism and Romanticism, formalism and expressionism, then, is merely the external manifestation of a duality which besieges the poet from within. Yet, while the poet’s nature is woven from a skein of contradictions, his writings exhibit a common root: the quest for a harmony through which these differences may be resolved, reconciledor-endured. To this end, as this study shows, Florit has exerted distinct levels of control: the formalism of ‘pure’ poetry, the poet’s aesthetic of Salvation, the idealizing activity of the imagination and intellect which reshapes the world depicted by the senses - as in Tr6pico; the tempering of passion through abstraction, distancing and indirection - studied under Eros; the choice of noninvolvement of death-as-a-way-of-life, examined under thanatos; the imaginative revision of past of an art of recollection and, most centrally, the exaitation of a beneficient nature, the laws of reason. and the lessons of faith.

The poet, indeed, experiences periods of integration and stability when he knows himself whole. Yet, what harmonious unity Florit encounters, the synthesis of opposites it presupposes is, at best, a fragile state. The study demonstrates,, that in the poets temporal existence, the laws of polarity and contradiction cannot be permanently abrogated.


TABLE OF CONTENTS:

I. Introduction......1

II. A Poetry of outwardness......7
The Poet as Exegete: A Doctrine of Aesthetic Salvation......7
Tropico: The Delineation of a Cosmos......12

III. A Poetry of Inwardness: The Anatomy of Disquiet......23
Eros as the Tendance of the Body......26
Thanatos......35
An Iconography of Disquiet......51

IV. The Struggle for Serenity: Angles of Vision......81
An Art of Recollection......81
Disquiet Quelled Through Art......93
Nature as Permanence: The Poet in Harmony......102
Eros as the Tendance of toe Soul......115

V. Conclusion......161

Bibliography......167