The poetry, the art, the immortality

Abstract

The recurring theme of literary immortality runs through literature since Homer. If all culture proclaims the desire to overcome our natural condition, we find in Jorge de Sena, along with the vehement nonconformity in the face of the absurdity of being born to die, an affirmation of disbelief in any kind of immortality. Hence the urgency in recognizing the merits of his incomparable work, of which he is aware, as he wants to be recognized in this world because, as he writes, he does not believe in another. But if a work is essentially a gesture of survival, that of Sena certainly fulfils the prophecy of its verse: «One day we will be delivered from death without ceasing to die».