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## Luis García Montero: "Literature is a fundamental exercise of human emancipation"

15/07/2016 |
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"Literature is a fundamental exercise of the emancipation of human beings", stated the poet and professor at the University of Granada Luis Garcia Montero while participating in the summer course "Current poetry: art and experiences" that is taking place in the Universitat Jaume I throughout this week.

"For me, poetry is an attempt to draw the space of truth," a sensitive truth, "an honest way to balance the values ​​with reality" in a society that walks very fast and where the culture of use promotes the culture of disposability, explained the poet Luis García Montero in his speech entitled "Poetry as a vocation".

Through the commented reading of some of his poems, the teacher has shared his ideas about poetry, an art that promotes "the claim of individual consciousness, one that admits no slogan". Garcia Montero has pointed out that he likes the poetic tradition that demands the concept of "loneliness" understood as a sphere of independence and not isolation or ostracism and a personal work of inquiry that "enables us to own our own opinions" in a society in which it is difficult to maintain independence of thought.

Love in poetry was another issue discussed during the reading commented: "Poetry of love ies -he has noted- a search for other sentimentality", a hospitable space that makes the reader think about their own history. Although the way of conceiving love is transformed throughout history, he has indicated that poetry is an artistic exercise "that tries to create an artistic object that makes others feel their own history".

Literary tradition and admiration were other issues addressed by the professor of Literature at the University of Granada, who ensured that "the invention of nowhere is naive: poets are part and look the place where speak out". The poet believes in personal reading of tradition and literary admiration as a human right because "people who loses his admiration falls into the abyss". In his view, "as a reader, I know that *I am* thanks to literature as a dialogue between consciousness and unconsciousness", a way that "helps you live the other's place and find your own personality".

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