Variations on Exile:
Rafael Alberti and María Zambrano
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i30p107-134Keywords:
Rafael Alberti, María Zambrano, Exile, Identity, Poetic reasonAbstract
This study explores exile as a symbol from Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutic perspective in two key figures of the Generation of ’27: Rafael Alberti and María Zambrano. In Marinero en tierra (1924), Alberti expresses his deep-rooted connection and anticipates his way of facing exile through love and a bond with the land. Zambrano, in turn, develops a phenomenology of exile in works such as Filosofía y poesía (1939), Hacia un saber sobre el alma (1950), and El hombre y lo divino (1955), linking this experience to her method of poetic reason. Exile, as a key to interpretation, represents the human being’s separation from an original state of fulfillment, echoing the myth of the lost paradise. Beyond its territorial dimension, it symbolizes a rupture in identity and the sense of belonging. In Alberti and Zambrano, exile is confirmed as both a loss of spatial center and collective time; this experience defines their respective works.
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