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Ramón López Castellano
The social status of Spanish poet Leopoldo María Panero as a poète maudit pre-conditions the reception and therefore the readings of his work. Malediction thus becomes an often-simplified metanarrative that determines the interpretation of texts and places writing within a stable and allegedly marginal location in relationship to a presupposed central literary and sociocultural canon. This essay illuminates a set of connections that can be established between Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s notion of minor literature, as developed in their seminal work Kafka: por una literatura menor, and some of the most relevant aspects of deterritorialization in Panero’s expression, understood as minor practice. An analysis of the tendency of Panero’s oeuvre towards minority as the force at the core of his literary expression and the concept of the minor in literature can help unlock a reading of the poet’s work that avoids aprioristic categorizations and meta-interpretations
