Imaginative childhood drawings in the poetry of Luis García Montero

Abstract

In the following article we analyze poems by Luis García Montero (Granada, 1958) in which childhood is presented in an unexpected way, a childhood that is drawn from various metaphorical procedures and specific work with the language, and which is generally presented from a doubling of the adult subject who enunciates, integrating from otherness or distancing. In order to observe from which places his poetry is read and to provoke meeting points with the category that we call imaginative childhood drawings or figurations, we establish a dialogue with some of the works that critics promote about his poetry; focusing on the articles by Scarano (2015), Martínez Pérsico (2017) and Candel Vila (2019). In short, we are interested in illuminating areas of Luis García Montero's poetics that have not been explored but related to what the last critic has analyzed about it.