Open AccessOctavio Paz y Mesoamérica: un himno entre ruinas
Author(s) -
Fabienne Bradu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
literatura mexicana
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2448-8216
pISSN - 0188-2546
DOI - 10.19130/iifl.litmex.2021.1.26858
Subject(s) - cosmogony , poetics , mesoamerica , art , gaze , humanities , poetry , philosophy , literature , history , ancient history , computer science , computer vision
Octavio Paz’s essays on Mesoamerica —a facet little studied by critics and poorly known by the general public— reveal the penetrating gaze of the poet, not of a specialist, on the ancient world of Mexico, its cosmogony and artistic productions always linked to a religious dimension. But the poet goes beyond anthropology and knowledge in itself, to underline the persistence of this cosmogony in Mexicans at present and also as encountered in the main foundations of his poetics. It is through this constancy that two different Mexicos emerge, as Octavio Paz interprets the events of 1968 and the Zapatista insurrection of 1994.