Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
De cuatro constelaciones. Ensayo y
antología
Publisher: Nuevo Milenio
Cochabamba, Bolivia
2005, 285 pages
This book is a study about the works of the four most important
poets that the modernist movement has produced in Bolivia: Ricardo
Jaimes Freyre, Franz Tamayo, Gregorio Reynold and José Eduardo
Guerra, all of them of continental repercussion. Followed by an
anthology of their poems, the detailed study encompasses the
analysis of the poetic of each author, the eroticism, as well as
their experience of time and the vision of the Spanish
conquest.
“Of Four Constellations, Essay and Anthology, by Eduardo Mitre,
firmly lifts the pillar that begins the long construction that will
fulfill the need for a non-canonic lecture of our canon… In each of
these Constellations, Mitre’s peculiarity lies in destabilizing the
previous traditional readings of those authors through the
confrontation between theme and form, content and structure.”
—Benjamín Santisteban, “La cifra del modernismo boliviano,” in
“Atar a la rata,” No 17, Cochabamba, 2006