From hopelessness to wholeness: the epiphanic revelation in the poetry of Álvaro Mutis
The boundaries between prose and verse, the presence of different voices´s characters, wich act as semi-heteronyms and gravitate the texts giving distance to the poetic self; the journey to the past as a revealing experience and the insuffiency of word as the mean of expression are the principal sub...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
2015-02-01
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| Series: | Acta Poética |
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| Online Access: | https://revistas-filologicas.unam.mx/acta-poetica/index.php/ap/article/view/457 |
| Summary: | The boundaries between prose and verse, the presence of different voices´s characters, wich act as semi-heteronyms and gravitate the texts giving distance to the poetic self; the journey to the past as a revealing experience and the insuffiency of word as the mean of expression are the principal subjects of the Álvaro Mutis´s poetry. In this essay, the concept of epiphany, understood as a representation of the perfect order or as an indecipherable formula of a mystery against the agonistic circumstances of disaster, unifies the colombian’s poetic work. |
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| ISSN: | 0185-3082 |