Mutations and interactions: the poetics of Julian Rios's Liberature (1966-1999)

Suarez, Oscar Salgado (2013) Mutations and interactions: the poetics of Julian Rios's Liberature (1966-1999). PhD thesis, Birkbeck, University of London.

Abstract

This book examines the exiled Spanish author Julián Ríos’s oeuvre (1966-1999) and investigates how his interconnecting novels mutate their levels of interaction around the figure of the reader while critically exploring the gradual disappearance of liberature’s original intention. In both his fiction and his art and literature essays/interviews and his editorial role at Espiral cultural magazine, Ríos’s form of writing can be described as an open, self-generative, fragmented and non-linear narrative which aims to encourage the reader to become an active participant of the work. Initially triggered as a response to Franco’s oppressive regime and heavily influenced by poststructuralist and neobaroque methodologies, Ríos’s work evolves and transforms itself through the political backdrop of an increasingly global worldview. Taking this postnational momentum into account, my work will highlight the innovative forms of narrative Ríos develops in which the limits of expression and criticism are continually expanded to emphasize the idea of what he refers to as liberature: a type of literature which aims to explore creative writing as a tool of liberation from rigid literary strategies by mutating the limits of the narrative. Passing from its use of a multilingual approach to word formation to reader and genre mutation, this book will also critically explore the gradual waning of literary experimentation the more Ríos distances himself from the figure of the Spanish dictator.

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