Dire le mal à partir des signifiants dans Maremágnum de Jorge Guillén : l'exemple de “Guerra en la paz”

Abstract

The article with the title To speak evil starting from signifiers in Maremagnum by Jorge Guillén: the example of “War in peace” tries to find out which linguistic resources are being used by the poet from Valladolid when, at the time he publishes the first part of Clamor - Tiempo de historia (Clamor - History time) in 1957, he proposes his readers a poetry which is increasingly committed to the problems of his time, as well as to those forces he considers negative for man’s state of completion on earth: disorder, chaos, emerging dictatorships, the threat of atomic power, armed conflicts, etc. The way he observes his surrounding world and Guillen’s social outcry, which is even stronger in his second book, are still viscerally based on linguistic signifiers which enable the poet to generate meaning starting from sensitive language elements: rhythms, accents, sounds or graphic lines which constitute the words of the Spanish language.