Francisco Matos Paoli o la angustia de Dios.
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Title
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Francisco Matos Paoli o la angustia de Dios.
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Identifier
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AAI3103169
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identifier
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3103169
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Creator
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Silen, Ivan.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Malva Filer
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Date
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2003
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Language
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Spanish
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Caribbean | Literature, Latin American | Philosophy
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Abstract
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This dissertation is about the work of Francisco Matos Paoli, one of the most intense poets from the Hispanic world. The fact that he was a mystic poet right in the middle of modernity turned him into a conflict with contemporary poetry. To understand this poet we have to add his passion for Puerto Rico's independence to his religious fervor. The determining encounter with the figure of Pedro Albizu Campos, foremost leader of Puerto Rican nationalism, as well as the encounter with the figure of Jesus Christ, led him to militate as a Christian in favor of albizuism. It also led him to confront American domination and colonialism, not just as political stance but also as Christian testimony.;Because of this attempt to liberate Puerto Rico, Matos Paoli was sentenced to five years in prison. The jail's violence and his constant religious fasting affected him so dramatically that he became mentally sick and the doctors diagnosed him as a schizophrenic. After he was released from prison and from the mental hospital, Matos Paoli, who had already written six poetry books, wrote Canto de la locura (1962) and El viento y la paloma (1969), two mystical books that are extremely important for Latin America and Spain. Maintaining a sporadic correspondence with the Spanish poet Jorge Guillen, and in spite of the cultural and political censure which surrounded him, Matos Paoli turned into one of the most remarkable religious poets of Latin America. Because of this he was nominated on three occasions (1977, 1980, and 1992) as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature.;The publication of Las pequenas muertes, Vestido para la desnudez, Los crueles espejos and La locura de la cruz : the creation of the mostly unpublished "cancioneros"; his anguished, lyrical and passionate Diario de un poeta I, II, III and his other unpublished works have turned Francisco Matos Paoli into one of the most lyrical, strange, devout and antiamerican figures. The militancy of his Christianity and the zeal and religiousness of his politics have turned him into a poet that should be placed in the privileged position of Spanishness that he deserves. He should be studied with the same enthusiasm and fervor that Matos Paoli gave to religion and above all to his poetry and to literature.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
