The genres frame in "Los raros" by Pere Gimferrer (and a coda of poetics)

Abstract

This paper studies the article collection Los raros by Pere Gimferrer. Originating from the model of Ruben Darío’s namesake book, the author tackles the genre of literary portrait in a personal manner. He approaches it from the works, so his own can be considered as metonymic portraits. Other genres like memoirs, critics and even literary history can be integrated in them. The subsequent analysis in the subject of light leads to the gathering of appropriate allusions about the creator’s poetics. In the end, the forgotten works that he hopes to recover, reveal common aspects with the writer-reader Gimferrer and with us, so that the concept of “rarity” is overcome in order to reclaim their reading.