Enjoyment and Consecration of the Moment in The Solitary Luncheon of Efraín Jara Idrovo

Abstract

In El almuerzo del solitario, Efraín Jara Idrovo (Cuenca, 1926) conceives the everyday as something banal that impedes any attempt of a transcendance which is only possible to acheive by means of existencial intensification. It is a poem in which the poet tries to subject loneliness, time and death, consecrating their full acceptance by means of the enjoyment of simple pleasures and frugal gifts which induce the harmony of the subject withim himself and with the universe.