LITTLE CLAY CUPS AND CANS OF NESCAFÉ: THREE VIEWS ON OBJECTS IN CLAUDIO BERTONI'S POETRY

Abstract

This article proposes a three-part reading of the presence of everyday objects in the poetry of Claudio Bertoni. First, the concept of "surplus of meaning" (Bodei, 2013) is introduced as a key interpretive tool to approach the apparent superficiality of his texts. As a counterpoint, a materialist perspective is proposed, one that dismisses the previous reading as an illusion (Rosset, 2016) that denies the mortuary nature of objects. Finally, drawing from Markus Gabriel's New Realism (2019a), the article reclaims the life that objects acquire insofar as they do not negate but rather complement and enrich the real, allowing for the emergence of an augmented reality within the poem.