The poetics of space, with Ingrid Guardiola and Andreu Gomila

Presentation of the book ‘The Poetics of Space’ by Gaston Bachelard, published in 2024 by Angle Editorial.

By Ingrid Guardiola, director of Bòlit and Andreu Gomila, translator.

This literary essay about poetic imagination is a classic of the 20th century. Philosopher and poet, at the same time, Gaston Bachelard writes with an unmistakable style, halfway between reflection and intuition. An essay that deepens into the relationships between poetry and space (architecture, home, nature), it asks how physical spaces influence our creativity and how we live in these spaces, transform them and give them meanings according to our experiences.

What Bachelard aims to do is observe how poetic images arise in our mind and study imagination as a process of our soul, not rational. He is one of the most intuitive and inspiring thinkers on literature.