«Radiografías» y «radiofonías» del silencio en la poesía hispana contemporánea: Carlos Bousoño, José Manuel Caballero Bonald, Antonio Colinas, Juan Luis Panero y Emilio Adolfo Westphalen

Abstract

This article is about the scarcely studied topic of silence in five Hispanic poets of the XXth and XXIst centuries: Carlos Bousono, Jose Manuel Caballero Bonald, Antonio Colinas, Juan Luis Panero and Emilio Adolfo Westphalen. These are the main ideas developed in this paper: silence as an attitude of literary concentration, as opposed to the agreed reason and to the conventional language, as an intuitive analysis of a reality that is beyond perception and as an attitude of wait of a transcendent revelation beyond death. This topic is of paramount importance as it has had an influence on mystics, romantics, symbolists, avant-garde writers and other important contemporary authors such as Samuel Beckett, Octavio Paz and the Spanish poetry of silence, among others.