Raúl Tuñón: zona de pasajes

Abstract

Propongo pensar los vínculos entre crónica y poesía como un rasgo fundamental y duradero de la escritura de Raúl Tuñón, orientada desde temprano a la exploración activa de formas reversibles e impuras que transitan entre lo poético y lo prosaico, el arte y la vida, lo real y lo imagina-rio. A partir de un corpus formado por poemas de los años 1930 y crónicas poco conocidas e inéditas fuera del sopor-te periodístico, considero su escritura como una zona de múltiples pasajes donde dos modalidades famosamente contrastadas por Mallarmé, poesía y reportaje, convergen y divergen, en dinámica tensión.

In this article I propose to think about the links between chronicle and poetry as a fundamental and lasting feature of Raúl Tuñón’s writing. It was oriented very early to the active exploration of reversible and impure forms that transit between the poetic and the prosaic, art and life, Real and imaginary. From a corpus of the 1930s, made up of poems of those years and chronicles little known and unpublished outside the journalistic support, I observe his writing as an area of multiple passages. In it, two modalities famously contrasted by Mallarmé, poetry and reportage, converge and diverge, in dynamic tension.