Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

Lorca's Suites: Reflections on Cubism and the Sciences

Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (2003), 80, (4), 509–524.

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https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.80.4.4
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English
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16

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Critics have acknowledged the innovative spirit of the avant-garde in Suites, but little has been done on the possible impact of Cubist and scientific tenets on the conception of these poems. This essay proposes a reading of Suites from the perspective of the avant-garde spirit, as it affected the arts and sciences at the time when this collection was being written. Cubist preoccupations about form, space, dimension, colour, simultaneity, multiple planes, and its disregard for the anecdotal in favor of the fragmentary and the discontinuous paralleled and responded to the new scientific discoveries. While remaining faithful to his belief in mystery and the limitations of reason, Lorca visited many of the tenets in Cubism and the sciences; the self-reflexive character of the Suites is informed by Lorca's awareness of those tenets, which he adopts as a way to understand and speak the language of the universe.

La crítica ha reconocido el carácter vanguardista de las Suites lorquianas, pero poco se ha escrito sobre el posible impacto del Cubismo y las ciencias en la creación de estos poemas. Este ensayo propone una lectura de Suites desde la perspectiva de las vanguardias y de su efecto en las artes y ciencias de la época cuando Lorca estaba escribiendo esta colección. Las preocupaciones cubistas por la forma, el espacio, las dimensiones, el color, la simultaneidad, la multiplicidad de planos, y su rechazo de lo anecdótico en favor de lo fragmentario y discontinuo, hace eco y responde a los nuevos descubrimientos científicos. Lorca estuvo al tanto de los principios propuestos por el Cubismo y la ciencia y los tomó en cuenta; el carácter auto-reflexivo de sus Suites se marca de dichos principios a los que el poeta recurrió para mejor entender el lenguaje del universo

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