Narratives about the atavistic frontier: mysteries, experiments and primates in The Strange Forces of Leopoldo Lugones
In his first two collections of poems, The Mountains of Gold (1897) and The Twilights of the Garden (1905), Leopoldo Lugones appealed to an extensive and heterogeneous series of animal figures to address various topics. In this regard, the intersections between these animal rhetorics and the poetic...
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I10-R377-article-456232024-11-19T23:19:20Z Narratives about the atavistic frontier: mysteries, experiments and primates in The Strange Forces of Leopoldo Lugones Narraciones sobre la frontera atávica: misterios, experimentos y primates en Las fuerzas extrañas de Leopoldo Lugones Simari, Leandro Ezequiel Leopoldo Lugones 19th century argentine literature animality evolutionism theosophy Leopoldo Lugones literatura argentina del siglo XIX animalidad evolucionismo teosofía In his first two collections of poems, The Mountains of Gold (1897) and The Twilights of the Garden (1905), Leopoldo Lugones appealed to an extensive and heterogeneous series of animal figures to address various topics. In this regard, the intersections between these animal rhetorics and the poetic reflections that motivate Lugones' esoteric and metaphysical concerns stand out. From there emerges, precisely, one of the most compelling images of The Mountains of Gold: the image of an “atavic frontier” drawn in the human soul, behind which a primitive, animal element is confined. This article contemplates the projections of that image and the associated questions in the narrative fictions that Lugones wrote during the same period and that he compiled in The Strange Forces (1906). In particular, the proposal consists of analyzing the ways in which two stories, “An inexplicable phenomenon” and “Yzur” appeal to an imaginary that combines the scientific and theosophical theories that were on the rise during the period to design fictions in which human life finds identifications and discontinuities compared to another with which it has multiple similarities: the monkey. En sus dos primeros poemarios, Las montañas del oro (1897) y Los crepúsculos del jardín (1905), Leopoldo Lugones apeló a una serie extensa y heterogénea de figuras animales para abordar diversos tópicos. Al respecto, destacan los cruces entre estas retóricas de lo animal y las reflexiones en clave poética que motivan en Lugones sus inquietudes esotéricas y metafísicas. De allí emerge, precisamente, una de las imágenes más contundentes de Las montañas del oro: la imagen de una “frontera atávica” trazada en el alma humana, detrás de la cual se recluye un elemento primitivo, animal. El presente artículo contempla las proyecciones de esa imagen y de las interrogaciones asociadas en las ficciones narrativas que Lugones escribió durante el mismo período y que compiló en Las fuerzas extrañas (1906). En particular, la propuesta consiste en analizar los modos en que dos cuentos, “Un fenómeno inexplicable” e “Yzur”, apelan a un imaginario que combina las teorías científicas y teosóficas en auge durante el período para diseñar ficciones en las que la vida humana encuentra identificaciones y discontinuidades frente a un otro con el que guarda múltiples similitudes: el mono. Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades 2024-07-07 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/45623 10.53971/2718.658x.v15.n25.45623 Recial; Vol. 15 Núm. 25 (2024): Dossier: Formas y problemas de la modernidad cultural en América Latina; 97-117 2718-658X 1853-4112 10.53971/2718.658x.v15.n25 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/45623/45677 https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/45623/45702 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 |
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In his first two collections of poems, The Mountains of Gold (1897) and The Twilights of the Garden (1905), Leopoldo Lugones appealed to an extensive and heterogeneous series of animal figures to address various topics. In this regard, the intersections between these animal rhetorics and the poetic reflections that motivate Lugones' esoteric and metaphysical concerns stand out. From there emerges, precisely, one of the most compelling images of The Mountains of Gold: the image of an “atavic frontier” drawn in the human soul, behind which a primitive, animal element is confined. This article contemplates the projections of that image and the associated questions in the narrative fictions that Lugones wrote during the same period and that he compiled in The Strange Forces (1906). In particular, the proposal consists of analyzing the ways in which two stories, “An inexplicable phenomenon” and “Yzur” appeal to an imaginary that combines the scientific and theosophical theories that were on the rise during the period to design fictions in which human life finds identifications and discontinuities compared to another with which it has multiple similarities: the monkey. |
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