Los espacios de la realidad deseada: Eduardo Wilde entre el fuego de Prometeo y el yo bajo la lluvia

Abstract

Through a series of compositions of the work published in 1899 Prometeo & Cía, its author, Eduardo Wilde, will show us that the modern process that Argentine society experienced in the last decades of the 19th century, led to the triumph of a secularized, unimportant, earthly world, with a marked attachment to contingency and pragmatism, in which there seemed to be no space for the emergence of any activity belonging to the domains of irrationality, of spirituality, of Beauty and, consequently, of the poetic. Against that civilization that guaranteed progress of an exclusively material nature, Wilde proposed the ideal values ??of his Promethean civilization, and against the objective, functional ugliness of the world, the beauty of its subjectivity: to it and through an element, water, his texts will lead us.