Raúl Gonzalez Tuñón Desencuadernado. Politics of Literature, Between Books and Periodicals

Abstract

This article discusses Raúl González Tuñón’s 1920s and 1930s literary production. Firstly, it explores the politics of literature that would allow us, less schematically than with the category of “political literature” ussually attributed to his texts of the 1930s, think about the challenges and the limitations of a literature that proposed itself as transformative, from the very beginning in the previous decade. Secondly, this article highlights the first circulation of texts in newspapers and magazines, periodical publications that were the contexts that shaped the literature that emerged on their pages. To unbound Raúl González Tuñón means to take in account his writings material conditions and it means to explore beyond the traditional figure of an author of books. It implies to investigate writing policies and practices that articulated fields, and that experienced not only with new aesthetic forms but also with various ways of public circulation of literature.