Góngora, baroque machine in Néstor Perlogher's archive

Abstract

In this article I analyze the way in which Néstor Perlongher (1949-1992), an Argentine writer and anthropologist, reads Luis de Góngora. The inquiry makes use of texts selected from a wide archive that includes, in addition to his published poetry, unpublished poetry, interviews, correspondence, academic articles and literary essays. During the article, I argue that Góngora was read by Perlongher with a creative direction, far from philological pretensions, which allowed him to encrypt some concepts within his aesthetic proposal. In the conformation of the Neo-Baroque, a critical vulgate has emerged that assumes the confluence of postmodern philosophy, the work of Lezama Lima and Severo Sarduy, and a rereading of the Golden Baroque, however the latter has been observed relatively little or is taken for granted without investigating the nooks and crannies and scope of its presence. This article contributes to the dimension of the role and place that the reading of a baroque poet of the xviith century had within a poet linked to a literary movement of the xxth century.