Leopoldo María Panero: Postmodernity in poète maudit's death

Abstract

The demystification of mauditism is thematized in some of Leopoldo María Panero's poems, poète maudit and postmodern. The following paper attempts to find a justificarion for this phenomenon in the problematic coexistence of postmodernity and maudit notions, having understood the latter as a myth created by poets themselves and consecrated by tradition. Some of postmodernity's characteristics, such as desubstancialization, decentralization and intefration, differ or are radically opposed to the mauditism's main features: otherness, excess and intensity. To conclude, it is discussed the possibility of mauditism to persist: cynicism and pure otherness are proposed as fundamental values for such persistence, which can also be found on the work and figure of the non-Spansh poet.