Imágenes de la literatura en la escritura ensayista de Abraham Valdelomar

Abstract

The present article studies Abraham Valdelomar”™s essayistic writing. It is devoted to explain how Abraham Valdelomar figures out literature in the comments he makes on some universal, Hispano-American and Peruvian literature writers. We sustain that when Valdelomar writes about the dramatist or poet himself he emphasizes the writer”™s genius and prophetic nature as features that give account of his authenticity. But when he deals with the masterpiece itself (drama/poetry), he finds a link between art and society in the performative orientation. With these links, both the ideas about the writer and his literary work, the essayistic writing transmits a literary image. The literary issue as the discourse that contains a conceptual and affective world model, a discourse whose modeling affects the perceptual system meanwhile it represents the world.