Poesía Lárica: Una relectura política de la obra de Jorge Teillier

Abstract

Laric poetry, as it is understood in Chile from Jorge Teillier’s essay “The poets of the lares”, that is, a return to the village and family origins as a rejection of the uprooted modernity that overrides traditional values, has prompted understandings that range from the exaltation of the nostalgic and provincial character to views that consider it as evasive aesthetics that lacks historical sense. As far as this work is concerned, my intention is to make a contribution to the critical analysis of laric poetry in terms of its political aesthetics that are related, according to what I propose here, directly with the historical processes of our country during the 20th century.