Abstract

BRADU, Fabienne. Octavio Paz and Mesoamerica: A hymn among ruins. Lit. mex [online]. 2021, vol.32, n.1, pp.193-211.  Epub May 07, 2021. ISSN 2448-8216.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.litmex.2021.1.26858.

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.

Keywords : Octavio Paz; Mesoamerica; Coatlicue; Student movement of 1968; Zapatista insurrection.

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