The Aesthetic Feeling as a Notion Inherited from Modernism in Las Canciones de Rinono y Papagil (1932) by Luis Valle Goicochea

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze how aesthetic feeling as a notion inherited from modernism operates in Las Canciones de Rinono y Papagil (1932) by Luis Valle Goicochea (La Libertad, 1908 - Lima, 1953), who belonged to the intellectual movement of northern
Peru. An approach to his collection of poems is proposed in a critical dialogue with the central proposals in the intellectual literary field of that movement still linked (but in tension) with modernist aesthetics. We conclude that compared to the group of avantgarde who fixed their gaze on the urban life of the modern city and used a rhetoric in tune with that progressive ideas, Valle Goicohea’s work questions that paradigm of modernity, focusing on rural spaces and using simple language that evokes children’s orality, because it responds to his aesthetic feeling (a notion inherited from modernism) as a way of ensuring
the authenticity of his artistic work and his figure as an artist. At the same time, in his search to capture an authentic aesthetic experience, he opens up new possibilities of creation (beyond the current aesthetic-ideological movements) from a place of enunciation outside of the capital.