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  • 18 - The Esthetics of Dulce María Loynaz

  • from Part III - Literary and Intellectual Culture in the Twentieth-Century Republic
  • Edited by Vicky Unruh, University of Kansas, Jacqueline Loss, University of Connecticut
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature
    Published online:
    31 August 2024
    Print publication:
    04 July 2024, pp 290-303

  • Summary

    In a detailed analysis of selections from Dulce María Loynaz’s poetry and nonfiction prose, and her radically experimental avant-garde novel Jardín (1951), this chapter demonstrates that this 1992 winner of the prestigious Cervantes Prize, who wrote much of her important work in the interwar years but maintained during her long life an ear attuned to changing times and shifting literary styles, consistently resisted classification in any category other than, perhaps, the paradoxical. The essay highlights throughout the “mixed signals” that emerge from the work of a formidable literary figure who was simultaneously romantic and modern, avant-garde and critical of the avant-gardes, intimist and anchored in the historical context.