Beyond the subject: from the search for the other to the emptied lyrical self

Abstract

The idea of proposing, for the first volume of the Cuadernos AISPI, a reflection on the lyrical subject comes from a long-standing frequentation, on the part of the two editors of this monograph1 , of contemporary Spanish poetry, and in particular those generations that were more sensitive to the metapoetic experience and the questioning of the lyrical self within a literary, aesthetic and philosophical tradition that begins, paradoxically, in Romanticism itself, as is clear from Hugo Friedrich's 1956 essay Die Struktur der modernen Lyrik (Friedrich 2002: 15-59) and Maurice Blanchot's Le livre à venir of 1959 (Blanchot 1986: 9-37).