Jesus G. Teacherprofessor of Theory of Literature, went to ‘The Wild Project’the podcast Jordi Wildand analyzed, among other issues, the figure of the writer JRR Tolkienauthor of the saga of ‘The Lord of the Rings’. “It’s not that it doesn’t convince me, it’s that it has been sold as something it is not.. The same thing happens when I talk about Shakespeare. ‘It’s just that he criticizes Shakespeare.’ “I also criticize Cervantes,” he commented.
Jesus G. Teacher He further elaborated on his approach: “Criticism consists of establishing a series of values and countervalues and reinterpreting a series of facts. It is not about disavowing Tolkien either Shakespearebut to explain them from a point of view that no one has explained before. Explaining Tolkien from Tolkien is not the same as explaining Tolkien from Cervantes.“.
Jesús G. Maestro analyzes Cervantes and Tolkien
The professor insisted on including Cervantes in the equation to present your vision about Tolkien. “The literature that Cervantes poses is a very critical one from which magical, metaphysical, transcendent and religious solutions of all kinds are totally excluded. The Baroque is a movement that says that everything has a rational explanationbut that is not the apparent one. That is Mediterranean culture. The realistic vision of reality, excuse the redundancy“, argument.
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Jesús G. Maestro: “Tolkien is a product of the Enlightenment, not the Baroque”
Jesus G. Teacher He noted that there was also “another version” that, as he indicated, “promotes Anglo-Saxon culture.” And here he already analyzed Tolkien directly: “He is a product of the Enlightenment, not the Baroque. It is a literature called evasion. In my generation it was called that, the ones after mine were educated in the Tolkinian world. They have already been formatted by a concept of Anglo-Saxon, idealistic and fabulous culture to evacuate human beings from reality and look for a way out“.
“The Baroque summons you to reality, it confronts you with it. In Tolkien’s case it is ‘let’s fantasize’. And since the imagination has enjoyed a pink legend compared to the realism and materialism that has enjoyed a black legend, well, of course, Tolkien is much more sympathetic. It is like the case of ‘The Neverending Story’another of the books that is part of that trend,” he argued Jesus G. Teacher in his interview with Jordi Wild.