Octavio Paz and the Essay: Consciousness and Transparency
Por:
Weinberg, Liliana
Publicada:
1 ene 2020
Resumen:
Octavio Paz was a visionary thinker of his century. The present work
explores decisive traits of his own definition as a poet and essayist
and in the opening of a creative and critical trajectory representative
of the artist and writer's transformations of the time. The echoes of
his experiences, sociability practices, and readings, as well as from
his sensitivity and critical lucidity, resulted in that Octavio Paz
contributed, since his first prose, to the reconfiguration of the essay
as a genre. This article proposes to read some essays of the Mexican
writer in dialogue with the reflections of great reformers of the essay
and criticism in the twentieth century. The search for a deep dialogue
between poetry and history, the effort to critically rethink tradition,
the demand for authenticity and freedom in the work of the writer, led
to a new poetics of thought and a new relationship between consciousness
and transparency.
Filiaciones:
Weinberg, Liliana:
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Letras & Estudios Latinoamer, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
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