Barroco y poder en Louis XIV de Paulo de Jolly

This article addresses the work of Chilean poet Paulo de Jolly (1952). An enigmatic, little known figure in the Chilean poetry scene, De Jolly begun developing a poetic project in the '80s consisting in embodying the voice of King Louis XIV. Using comparative analysis, this article examines how, while his peers wrote -or tried to write-about torture and disappearances, Paulo de Jolly celebrated the ample gardens of the Palace of Versailles and glorified ideas regarding the will to live, the luminosity in spaces, and the mildness of life in the court. Building on these and other subjects (like the offer of this collection of poems as a model of governance for Pinochet; the emergence of the figure of an absolute and belligerent king, among others), the article proposes an interpretation of the book based on studies about the Baroque period.