“Los copos del olvido” Mujer y violencia viril según Vicente Rosales y Rosales Rafael Lara-Martínez Tecnológico de Nuevo México rafael.laramartinez@nmt.edu Desde Comala siempre… Siluetas de mujeres, Vagan por mi mente. V. R. y R. Abstract / Résumé / Resumen Keywords / Mots clés / Palabras claves 0. Preludio musical I. Andanza poética I. I. Disonancia, la ausencia presente II. Coda sintética III. Colofón bibliográfico superfluo IV. Cota hermenéutica (“Mi Maestro el Rosal”, fragmento) Abstract: “The flakes of oblivion” studies the denial of a real presence of woman in the poetry of the Salvadoran writer Vicente Rosales y Rosales (1894/7-1980). Following the path of Ulysses —departure, search and return— the poet pursues a voyage in the quest of the rose. Its flowery symbolism encompasses the trinity of poetry, woman, and homeland (flower = anthos, xochitl/xuchit). The female figure appears in multiple metaphors of pursuit and achievement, as well as of male disputes for truth. Despite the convention that reduces Rosales’ legacy to mysticism, musical perfection in rythm, and recently to social criticism, gender issues play a significant role in his writing. Instead of considering woman as a sublimated figure, her earthly visage is alive as a partner in love, in desire and in a cosmic-sexual encounter, as well as in suffering domestic violence. “The” ethereal “Idyll” of the writer and poetry is equivalent to his romance affairs (see illustration by María Izquierdo). The current interest for female writers should not disdain her vital representation in the works of their counterpart, the male authors. Rosales y Rosales reflects on Florilegium in its intrinsic relationship to gender violence. In its original literary sense, the essay goes from interpreting the central archetypes in music (0) to break down their concrete practice in Rosales y Rosales’ poetry (I), until drawing a brief conclusion (II), a commented bibliography (III), as well as the translation of a fragment of “Mi Maestro el Rosal (My Teacher the Rosebush)” in its hermeneutic (IV). Résumé: "Les flocons de l'oubli" étudie le déni d'une présence réelle des femmes dans la poésie de l'écrivain salvadorien Vicente Rosales y Rosales