Vicente Aleixandre's Stream of Lyric Consciousness

Focusing on La destruccion o el amor (1935), this study explores AleixandreOs surrealist masterwork from an intertextual perspective inspired by the theories of Harold Bloom, Michael Riffaterre, G_rard Genette, and others. Among the cultural and literary intertexts considered are surrealism and the seminal role of Freud, metaphor, genre, narrative technique, and ancestor poets. An intertextual tack is instrumental in perceiving logic behind AleixandreOs surrealism, an irrational-appearing poetry widely taken as privately produced and self-contained. Key to the poetic logic of AleixandreOs surrealism, the intertextual horizon throws light on AleixandreOs place in his own generation and in literary history.