La nueva novela by Juan Luis Martínez: Proto-hypertextual poetry in videosphere’s context

Abstract

This article examines the poetry of Juan Luis Martínez, which constitutes a complex representation system where the limits of a book are shifted from the sphere of writing to the sphere of images. This fact determines a significant work in the context of Chilean poetry in the 80s. The rhetoric elements and other operations which characterize the aesthetics of Martínez’s work lead us to posit that this literature announces the new ways to support the text: the hypertext.