Abstract

GARCIA, Iván Jiménez. Emotions of the past in contemporary historical novel: return to a pathetic poem by Rivera’s Castelli. Cuad. CILHA [online]. 2020, vol.21, n.2, pp.239-262. ISSN 1852-9615.

Regarding La revolución es un sueño eterno (1987), where could be the roots of Andrés Rivera’s emotional receptiveness towards Juan José Castelli’s death from tongue cancer? In this research, we try to give answer to this question by going through part of the Argentinian writer’s work - El yugo y la marcha, Nada que perder, El verdugo en el umbral -, and by retrospectively analising several variations around the revolutionary action and other themes: the armed struggle, the voice, the speech, the dream, the reality... All the way through, we discover a set of feelings that progressively leads to an anti-epic and pathetic image of both the May Revolution (1810) and its tribune. Subjectivity is involved in this process, as an interpersonal extent where different experiences of the defeated left come together, leaving an affective sediment in the poetic language.

Keywords : Andrés Rivera; Juan José Castelli; Contemporary historical novel; Emotions; Subjectivity.

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