Larrea, Juan & Bary, David (trans.
Introduction). A tooth for a tooth : selected poems of Juan Larrea
(1925-1932), Lanham, MD : University Press of America, c1987.
Juan Larrea was a Spanish poet, art
critic and philosopher greatly influenced by French surrealism. “The
majority of his poetic and prose works were written in French and
translated into Spanish.
Larrea's entire output, including his
poetry, is part of an attempt to come into contact with, and
decipher, the archetypes of the collective unconscious as they are
manifested in all forms of culture, as well as in individual dreams
and experiences. He came to believe in a forthcoming mutation in the
cultural cycle in which the traditional religious and social
institutions of the West, as well as the Western emphasis on
individual consciousness, would disappear, A higher form of
collective consciousness would emerge, perhaps rooted in the
rediscovered primitive cultures of America.” (Crispin, John.
"Larrea, Juan.") Larrea uses a densely-written descriptive
language style to demonstrate complex intellectual themes.
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