This is the first monograph to consider the significance of madness
and irrationality in both Spanish and Spanish American literature.
It considers various definitions of madness and explores the often
contrasting responses, both positive (figural madness as stimulus
for literary creativity) and negative (clinical madness
representing spiritual confinement and sterility). The concept of
national madness is explored with particular reference to
Argentina, where the country's vast expanses have been seen as
conducive to madness, while the urban population of Buenos Aires is
especially dependent on psychoanalytic therapy. The discussion
considers both the work of lesser-known writers such as Nuria Amat,
whose personal life is inflected by madness, and that of larger
literary figures such as Jose Lezama Lima, whose poetic concepts
are suffused with the irrational. The conclusion draws attention to
the other side of reason as a source of possible originality in a
world dominated by the tenets of logic and conventionalised
thinking.
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