Historia y espiritualidad española en la obra de José Jiménez Lozano: entre ensayo, ficción y poesía

The work of José Jiménez Lozano allows a multifaceted approach to the history of Spanish thought, especially that of the religious and spiritual sphere of the 16th century. More than as an intellectual or academic, the Castilian writer carries out a literary synthesis that reflects not only a personal poetics, but a way of writing that reproduces the creative and critical gesture of a hidden line of our Modernity. Taking as references mainly his essays, as well as his romances on Fray Luis of Leon, Therese of Ávila or John of the Cross or some motifs of his poetry, this article delves into the poetic nuances of a vision of Spanish spiritual history indebted to the approaches of a generation influenced by Américo Castro. He builds with them an ethical and aesthetic interpretation through the application of a category defined here as chronoclasm.