Las cartas de Guillermo Carnero a Rosa Chacel: la creación de un espacio propio

Abstract

In this thesis, we analyse the correspondence between the young Catalan poet Guillermo Carnero and the elderly novelist and essayist Rosa Chacel, exiled in Brazil, in the second half of the 1960s. He also sent some of his poems to her, using them to explain his vision of life and art. Through the poems and letters, both full of references and allusions to artists, literature, cinema, music, etc., they created a space of their own, a virtual transatlantic community between them. We show that for both of them this space of their own functioned as an emotional refuge, where they could retreat from a world perceived as hostile.