Agustín Espinosa and the “crime” of writing: notes on the study of his authorial figure

Abstract

This article studies the authorial figure of Agustín Espinosa from a double perspective. The first focuses on the writer’s ethos in texts dated between the end of the 1920s and the publication of Crimen (1934). The second attends to the different images of the author that emerge as a consequence of the scandal surrounding this book. Both parts of this approach deal with the fissures and continuities between Espinosa’s image and the representations of authorship in his time, with the purpose of highlighting the relevance of the Canary writer for the study of Surrealism in Spain and the sociocultural factor leading to his scarce recognition as one of its most representative voices.