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SUAREZ TURRIZA, Tatiana. The flâneur and the multitude in the world city of García Lorca. Iztapalapa. Rev. cienc. soc. humanid. [online]. 2022, vol.43, n.93, pp.307-328.  Epub 08-Ago-2022. ISSN 2007-9176.  https://doi.org/10.28928/ri/932022/aot6/suarezturrizat.

The objective of this article is to analyze the special configuration of the poet as a flâneur and the representation of the New York metropolis as a world city in the poetry of Federico García Lorca. The analysis focuses on the Lecture-recital on his New York poetic compositions that Lorca dictated and performed in several countries between 1931 and 1935, and on some poems of the book Poeta en Nueva York, published in 1940, specifically in those of the section “Calles y sueños”. In the introduction of this work, some of the key concepts of Lorca’s poetics raised in the Conference-recital are defined, as in other works: “imagination”, “evasion” and “inspiration”. In a second section, the concept of “world city” is explained to open the discussion on the conception of the poet as a flâneur and his complex relationship with the crowd. To support the analysis, we turn to Walter Benjamin’s studies on the figure of the flâneur in Baudelaire’s work, and his definitions of “gaze”, “crowd” and “city”; correspondences and differences with respect to Lorca’s poetic expression are underlined. Finally, based on the definitions of Kayser and Bajtín, this article concludes that the grotesque is the aesthetic resource that structures the expression of the world city, through the gaze of the flâneur poet, in the poems of “Calles y sueños”.

Palabras llave : spanish poetry; avant-garde; flâneur; world city; grotesque.