The refabrication of literary personae in the poetry of Gilberto Owen

Resumen

After the tumultuous years of the Mexican Revolution there was a literary resurgence. A group of the most prominent national writers participated in the renewal and development of the literary life of post-revolutionary Mexico. Taking their name from the literary review, the Contemporáneos contributed significantly to the formation of modern Mexican letters. Among the young and precocious writers known as the Contemporáneous, according to several critics, Jorge Cuesta, José Gorostiza and Gilberto Owen were the hermetic poets of the group. Gilberto Owen is considered  by such scholars as Celestino Gorostiza and Frank Dauster as one of the group's superior poets. At the same time, they point out that the complexity of Owen's work requires an in-depth exploration of it. The objective of this paper is to consider the representation of four key literary figures, Sindbad, Boaz, Jacob, and Perseus, in Owen's work as a means of gaining greater insight into the involved discourse of the difficult poet.