No. 8 (2019): Barefoot voices. Declinations of literary work in the Iberian and Ibero-American world

The eighth issue of "Pagine Inattuali" collects the contributions of authors and researchers of different backgrounds from European and Latin American universities. The volume aims to reflect on the meaning and function of the literary work in the Iberian and Ibero-American world with the intention of exploring its declinations and implications in both the philosophical and literary fields. The presumed specificity of the Spanish "case", and more generally of the Latin American cultural basin, in fact shows the evidence of a different link between philosophy and literature, which requires us to problematize both the dominance of each of these disciplinary fields and their interaction and interdependence. This allows us to rethink categories of thought and declinations of literary works from a perspective that is not simply interdisciplinary, but rather "transdisciplinary", which has the merit of showing how the relationship between literature and philosophy is to be considered an always open and intimately connected question, to beyond specific territorial and cultural boundaries, to the process of sectoralisation and hyper-specialisation of knowledge. In this sense, this volume nevertheless has the objective of probing the question of identity while examining, at the same time, alternative models of rationality.

Consecrating this research path is one of the most recognized voices in the panorama of contemporary Spanish poetry, Clara Janés. The issue, in fact, opens with an interview with the famous writer and translator, called to testify to that irreducible spiritual "heterodoxy" that characterizes the Iberian peninsula. In a sort of counterpoint, the nine essays that make up the volume seem to want to introduce us not so much to a truth on the topic, but rather to the "life of truth" - to use Enzo Paci's happy formula - as it unfolds in the philosophical and literary in the Iberian and Ibero-American context. The contributions address the following themes: the literary field and minor literature in transatlantic poetry (Calabrian); matter and nothingness in a discussion on the theme of creation between Zambrano, Valente and Chillida (Domínguez Romero); Genesis and Apocalypses in Latin American literature (Galindo Ayala); the metaphor of the castle in María Zambrano between Teresa of Avila and Franz Kafka (Grigoletto); the reading of Plato's condemnation of poetry in the reflections of María Zambrano and Eugenio Trías (Rivera); travel literature as an exploration of the Other in the Crónicas de Indias (by the Russian); the articulation between trauma, sound and word in Não falei by Beatriz Bracher (Scaramucci); Cesário Verde as Portuguese flâneur (Soffritti); the declinations of writing in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Trapanese / Piqueras Flores).

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