Momentos de la literatura colombiana. Literatura finisecular y modernismo 1882 - 1920. Narrativa colombiana contemporánea.

Abstract

Within the context of Colombian literature, modernism occupies a definitive page for our artistic and cultural identity, since poets of the stature of José Asunción Silva, Guillermo Valencia and José Eustasio Rivera mark a milestone in this renewal of rhythm, meter and music that found its parallels mainly in José Martí, Leopoldo Lugones and Rubén Dario. Well into the twentieth century, poets like Leon De Greiff picked up the legacy of this movement and gave it an avant-garde tone, thus placing Colombian poetry at the height of what was already universal in Latin America. Modernism is therefore the window that allows us to peek into the best of European poetry and allows Europeans to discover the contributions of the new world. For its part, our prose has also been opening the field to find its place in literature as well as in language, and the great historical and social crises suffered by Colombian society have been the breeding ground for countless stories and novels in both rural and urban environments. The Colombian reality fictionalized and poeticized by our writers has made of their works a literary reality. Suffice it to mention the names of Manuel Zapata Olivella, Fernando Cruz Kronfly, R. H. Moreno-Durán, Héctor Rojas Erazo, Luis Fayad, Germán Espinosa, Marvel Moreno, the recently awarded Laura Restrepo or the recently deceased Manuel Mejía Vallejo, to consider that Gabriel García Márquez, our most universal writer, is not the only letter of introduction to the contemporary literary world.