The Published Works of J. J. Benegasi y Luján: the Construction of a Polyhedric Profile

Abstract

La consagración de José Joaquín Benegasi y Luján (1707-1770) como autor profesional es el resultado de un periplo literario y vital cuyas huellas nos proponemos rastrear en la trayectoria de sus obras publicadas y a partir del concepto de firma autorial. Los privilegiados contactos académicos, la influencia de la figura paterna y una situación económica no demasiado boyante animan a nuestro autor a recorrer el arduo camino desde el amateurismo hasta la profesionalidad literaria. Sin embargo, es en el período final de su carrera cuando encontramos la presencia de un discurso más personal en el que abunda la autorreferencialidad y en el que se consolidan esas características que el autor ya ha asumido como propias (estilo jocoserio, arte menor). Partiendo de estas marcas identitarias intentaremos establecer los puntos clave de la estrategia editorial de Benegasi en relación con la construcción de su propio perfil autorial.Recognition of José Joaquín Benegasi y Luján (1707-1770) as a professional author is the result of his distinctive life and literary career. This paper proposes to identify the signature literary characteristics that define his published works. Benegasi y Luján was inspired to traverse the arduous road from amateurism to literary professionalism by his privileged academic contacts, his father’s influence and a hardly affluent economic situation. However, it is in the final period of his career that we find the presence of a more personal discourse in which self-referentiality is plentiful and the characteristics he perceived as his own (jocoserio style, verse in arte menor) are consolidated. Based on these identifying marks, the paper undertakes to define the key aspects of Benegasi’s editorial strategy as he constructed his own profile as an author through a unique process of self-fashioning.

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