Who says me in the poem? To this question, romantic in origin and formulated up to the present, each poet responds with an enigma. From Rimbaud's famous schism ("I am another") to excessive impregnation, from absence to loud magnification, I, life and author slip into the imaginary. In Western literature there is no longer an undivided subject but the ghost of a name: life as a poetic invention, the author as a metaphor for himself.
Jorge Monteleone explores the scope of this radical decentering in a long conversation with Borges; in the works of Mallarmé, Noël and Gamoneda, of Viel Temperley, Gelman and Lihn; in the art of impersonality by Charles Soussens, Enrique Banchs, Macedonio Fernández, Juan L. Ortiz, Alberto Girri and Silvina Ocampo, and in the self-portraits of Idea Vilariño, Winétt de Rokha and David Rosenmann-Taub.