Anaxárete : de Ovidio a Jorge Guillén

Abstract

This paper deals with Jorge Guillén's recreation of the Iphis and Anaxarate myth in «Tiempo Perdido., a fifteen-poem sequence included in Homenaje. The only classical source for this theme is Ovid's narration in Metamorphosis XIV, 698-761, although it has a long tradition in Spanish Literature from Garcilaso to Calderón. Guillén faithfully recreates Ovid's text, above all in poems such as .,Las coronas» (paraclausithyron in the elegiac way with a first-person focalization), «Últimas resistencias» (allusion to Anaxarate's arrogant attitude) and «Muerte y petrificación (tragic ending). This fidelity to the hipotext goes together with a logical trans-stylization