2007
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Claire Pailler, « Roberto Armijo, poeta de los exilios », Caravelle. Cahiers du monde hispanique et luso-brésilien (documents), ID : 10.3406/carav.2007.3149
Salvador, his missing country, is always inscribed concavely in Roberto Armijo's work. If the poem -satirical and denouncing— might be a political weapon, it also enables to recreate an ideal native land, based on natural beauty, harmony and a love, either exalted and supporting or full of tenderness and nostalgia. The care dedicated to the form : use of the sonnet, choice of a «pointillist» writing, places his texts in the tradition of the great American lyric poets whom he claims as his models : Rubén Darfo, César Vallejo...