María Zambrano and Cervante's gaze

Abstract

This essay observes the Baroque disenchantment acquires its representation in the madness of Alonso Quijano; María Zambrano will observe in him the allegory of Spain, an ambiguity that manages to be expressed with the depth of literature that is not afraid to delve into the most intimate secrets of existence; a poetic look that delves into dreams and delirium, the folly and lucidity of Cervantes' writing, in his reverie, in his alternation between the ideal and the real, in the tense duality between idealism and Spanish realism. Iberian modernity, already baroque, is born accompanied by ambiguity: literary creation reaches the novel and thus finds another ontological possibility, that of being narrated and spun between poetic metaphors without fear of the depths and contradictions of the oscillating baroque soul.