Poetic connections between the interior and exile. Enrique Azcoaga and his projects from Argentina

The links between the inner and exile cultures are a key to interpreting Spanish literary and cultural history since 1939. This paper sets an analysis of the metaphoric concept of bridge as an image that idealises the relations between the two sectors that Francoist dictatorship split. It specifically criticises that these bridges have been interpreted as an incontrovertible fact rather than a horizon and have been used to minimise the damage which dictatorship caused on culture. In order to exemplify this criticism, the failure of two paradigmatic projects of bridges between inside and exile are examined: the anthology Panorama de la poesfa moderna espanola (1953) and the journal Mairena (1953-1954), both published in Argentina by Enrique Azcoaga.