Evocación de Germán Espinosa por José Luis Díaz-Granados y algunas notas sobre el horizonte de recepción de la obra espinosiana

Marisa Martínez Pérsico | Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi y Università di Roma Tor Vergata

Abstract: This paper reflects on a series of intratextual and extratextual factors –related to his early predilection for poetic Modernism, the cul- tivation of fantastic tales, the rejection of social realism and magical realism– that would help to explain the slow insertion of Germán Espinosa’s work (1938-2007) in the canon of Colombian literature. As a complement to some clarifying metatexts (comments, interviews and author’s statements) we present an interview that we made to the writer José Luis Díaz-Granados in Bogotá, in September 2019, about Espinosa’s reception in the local environment and about the controversial personality of the author from Cartagena.