Sing The Color Your Silence: The Quiet Music by Antonio Carvajal (With Traces of S. Juan de La Cruz and Evocation of Albéniz By J. R. Jiménez)

Abstract

The varied and ample poetic work of Antonio Carvajal (1943-) offers characteristics and signs of identity that have allowed him the possibility of experiencing and transiting life from fiction, in the words of the writer himself. It has been so, however, thanks to his great critical assimilation of exemplary poetic models from our classics of the Golden Age to precluded authors of modernity and literary contemporaneity. This privileged vantage point, in which tradition and renovating experimentation are combined, explains why his verses, between life and literature, treasure a visible ontological and philosophical-existential dimension in accordance with the universals of feeling, in Machadian terms, such as love, life or death. Likewise, from his production as a whole, one can deduce his decided will of commitment and vocation from ethics and aesthetics, often with a humorous patina, irony and continuous complicit winks to the reader.