The exile space

Nostalgia as a principle

Authors

  • Jorge Nudelman Universidad de la República, Uruguay

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35305/23626097v4i6.35

Keywords:

nostalgia, trip, reconstruction

Abstract


This article attempts to analyze the role of nostalgia understood as the emotional distress that remoteness entails. The spatial and visual nature of exile and migration wounds turns nostalgia into a creativity channel which seeks to reconstruct the places that have been left. Some works of Alejo Carpentier, José Pedro Díaz, Joaquín Torres García and Antonio Bonet are analyzed from the perspectives of literature, art and finally architecture in order to trace the heuristic power of pain –algia- that homesickness –nostos- implies. While writers express restraint by means of irony and deception, painter Torres García reconstructs the past through a merciless and unrestrained work. This is also shown when reproducing his Catalan home in Montevideo: architects Juan Menchaca and Ernesto Leborgne work on his aesthetic Mediterranean project. Antonio Bonet, in turn, intends to reconstruct his past in Barcelona (a modern and vernacular one) but this goes against the Andalusia’s folklore of his clients: Rafael Alberti and Rosa León.

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Author Biography

Jorge Nudelman, Universidad de la República, Uruguay

Doctor Arquitecto (UdelaR - ETSAB, 1986 / UPM, 2013). Profesor Titular en el Instituto de Historia de la Arquitectura y Profesor Adjunto de proyectos (FADU, UdelaR). Ha publicado en diversas revistas nacionales e internacionales. Su úlimo libro publicado en 2015 se titula Tres visitantes en Paris. Los colaboradores uruguayos de Le Corbusier.

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Published

2018-03-13

How to Cite

Nudelman, J. (2018). The exile space: Nostalgia as a principle. A&P Continuidad, 4(6), 122–133. https://doi.org/10.35305/23626097v4i6.35

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 6 (2017): CONTEMPORARY PROJECT. THE ROLE OF HISTORY

Section

Essays

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