The Total Art in Juan Gelman's La Junta Luz

Abstract

The present study focuses on the dramatic poetry of Juan Gelman in his work, La Junta Luz. The diverse artistic resources applied in the poetic writing, as well as the total art, which includes different types of languages, such as poetic, journalist and photographic language, are analyzed. The work resembles the Greek drama genre from which the concepts of publicity, kinetics and tragedy are extracted. The poetic words are masterfully integrated into the testimonial and journalist text to present a series of events of torture and violence. Finally, by means of photography and its technical mechanisms, the effects of repetition and fragmentation that the images produce are highlighted.