The rhythm of time in Pablo de Rokha's autobiography

Abstract

The purpose of the following article is to analyze The Stone Friend (the posthumous autobiography of Pablo de Rokha), in a comparative way with other areas of his poetry, as an example of certain characteristics of the author's poetic rhythm; such as exuberance, an aspect that in his autobiography is territorialized with emphasis through the abusive use of the present tense. Both the current state of Rokhian studies and the critical instability that his work produces (an aspect that we can also trace in The Stone Friend), as well as the rhythm (from the Meschoniquian theory) and its link with American poetic creation will be the transversal axes of this work.