La cuestión Silva Una revisitación de cara a la revisión del canon de la poesía colombiana del siglo XX al siglo XXI

In the study of milestones, modes and authors involved in the construction of a sort of canon of the Colombian poetry since the beginnings of the 20th. century, the researcher finds in different types of sources and along the decades the frequent topic that we call “Silva's Problem”, understood as the way José Asunción Silva's literary works were assimilated towards the canon, its reference as a focal point conceived in terms of Modernity and therefore as the legacy of that (presumed) Modernity to the later generations in Colombian poetry. This article revisits, from an underlying re-reading of Silva's texts, certain milestones of its reception especially related to the diverse and sometimes contradictory perspectives from which the notions of Modernity, Modernism(s), Symbolism and Decadence were assumed in the past and are still assumed. It also highlights some textual and reading references that should be taken into account within the framework of Transatlantic transits between Europe and Colombia when studying Silva's work and its reception.