Ocnos o l'esglai d'una imatge

• Jordi Cerdà Subirachs ^[1]
  1. [1] Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

     Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

     Barcelona, España

     
• Localización: Zeitschrift für Katalanistik: Revista d'Estudis Catalans, ISSN-e 2199-7276, ISSN 0932-2221, Nº. 30, 2017, págs. 293-314
• Idioma: catalán
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  • Ocnos has a recurring presence in Salvador Espriu’s late works. Althoughthe ambivalent meaning of this mythical figure has been little discussed in modernity, anumber of distinguished critics have taken keen interest since Goethe took it up againin his commentary on Pausanies. In fact, the late Espriu portrays, in the stupid useless-ness of Ocnos’s work, the failure and the emptiness of the poet and of the humanbeing likewise. Nevertheless, this enigmatic figure holds other meanings which lead usto fear, to paralysing fear, to the so called “parat esglai”. Espriu brings this character inHades to Sinera and he becomes the axis around which he builds his singular poetics