The Crisis of the Modern Poet in Humberto Díaz-Casanueva’s El Blasfemo Coronado. Dialectics Between Philosophical Reason and Poetic Delirium

Abstract

In this paper I analyze Humberto Díaz-Casanueva’s prose poem El blasfemo coronado (1940). The poem points out a particular construction of the poet’s figure and the role his words play in the context of modernity. A set of tensions are expressed both at the thematic and formal levels. The dualities displayed in the text are part of the subject’s existential conflict. The poetic voice is split into two apparently irreconcilable attitudes: philosophical reason and poetic delirium.