Start by taking "Inventory". Fables of the beginning and old age in the authorial project of Joaquín Sabina

Abstract

Childhood and old age, in addition to being biological stages in the life of the subjects, can operate as powerful theoretical inputs when it comes to investigating the links between life and art. In this opportunity we will carry out an approach to those "functions of the beginning", fables of the beginning and childhood of writing (Premat 2016) in the song "Inventario" by Joaquín Sabina included in the homonymous album (1978) and compiled in the autopoetic volume With good handwriting. Updated edition (2002, 2007). In this overture song, Joaquín Sabina begins his authorial project (Zapata 2011) in the emergency stage, exposing a series of images (Amossy, Maingueneau 2009) that will become postures (Meizoz 2007, 2009) and that will delineate a particular authorial figure, an author character (Castilla del Pino 1989) who designs himself (Groys 2014) in search of an original identity fabrication that positions him in a certain way in the poetic-musical scene of the author song. Through the autopoetic notes drawn in handwritten calligraphy in With Good Handwriting, we will investigate how Joaquín Sabina reviews his authorial project at the same time that he founds it from the incipits of his writing, entry into work and entry into literature, which already from his beginnings shows repeated and paradoxical vestiges of old age.