El libro virtual de Baldomero Fernández Moreno

Abstract

With singular perception, Baldomero Fernández Moreno conceived in 1917 a book of poems which beginning and end are apparent, as he had postulated, for another project, Stéphane Mallarmé. Ciudad of BFM was already, in fact, in its first book, Las iniciales del misal, of 1915, and will preside from the title the last one, published in 1949, shortly before his death. Provocatively defined by Borges in 1956, his revolutionary strategy would have consisted of something as simple and unusual as looking around. From that new look, paths, trees, roads, kiosks, cinemas, coffee shops, workers, small hours, brothels emerge; loudness and quietness, trapped from a language that exhibits its inevitable Hispanic origin and at the same time allows itself to be infiltrated productively by the speech of Río de la Plata.