Becoming old in childhood, becoming a child in old age. Misaligned temporalities in the authorial project of Joaquín Sabina

Abstract

In the present work we will approach the authorial project (Zapata, 2011) of Joaquín Sabina in it stage of canonization from the figurations (Pozuelo Yvancos, 2010) and theoretical fictions (Link, 2014) of childhood and old age as reading instruments that they emerge in terms of functions of the beginning (Premat, 2016) and functions of the end (Ruiz, 2021a). We will investigate in textual autopoetics and in Sabina's public interventions those manifestations that expose the figurations of childhood and old age, to think of them not only as representations about the child who was or the old man who is the author, but also as discursive and behavioral mechanisms that elaborate a posture authorial (Meizoz, 2007, 2009) and a particular author character (Castilla del Pino, 1989). In this way, the arc that traces life between its extremes enables the theorization, in terms of becoming (Deleuze and Guattari, 1988), of the spaces of childhood and old age as writing laboratories (Premat, 2014, 2016), creative fields where to put to work the machinery of fictions, productive inputs from which to misalign temporalities to erect a childish posture in terms of resistance.