Lo perdido en la poesía del exilio de Rafael Alberti: «objetos, cosas y fetiches» en Pleamar, Retornos de lo vivo lejano, Ora maritima, Baladas y canciones del Paraná

Abstract

The present thesis is about Alberti’s production of exile and, specifically, his collections of poems Pleamar, Retornos de lo vivo lejano, Ora maritima, Baladas y Canciones del Paraná. The four syllogs, published between 1944 and 1954, have been analyzed in order to highlight the transubstantiation of the "mere object" into "thing" operated by the lyric self; the passage from the pure materiality to sign, symbol, idol, which occurs thanks to a special and at the same time problematic connection between the subject and the object, and of which these four books of poems constitute a very good example. However, a second focus of the research was marked by the “symbolic fetishism of the homeland” as an object of worship and adoration, considering its status of “lost thing” behind which lies a stratification of latent meanings and impulses that reveal an identity in balance - that of the poet - split between involutionary myth and his a present of separation from his homeland. .. [edite by Author]