“Todos tenemos la obligación de vaciarnos antes de desvanecernos”. On Rafael Barrett and the Tuberculosis
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Rafael Barrett, tuberculosis, writing, lettersAbstract
This article proposes an examination of the letters written by Rafael Barrett to his wife, Francisca, and to his friend, Peyrot, attentive to the tuberculosis that plagued him from 1906 until his death in 1910. It is argued that these letters reveal that tuberculosis, then conceived as terminal, was a determining factor for Barrett's writing to gain strength, multiply and receive recognition from his readers. In this way, it seeks to detach Barrett from any decadent portrait and to take distance from the centrality given to his political activism. The idea is that this phase of his life, dominated by illness, is decisive for the development and consolidation of his literary project.
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