Silencios y diálogos transatlánticos: compromiso y esoterismo en las poéticas de Octavio Paz y de la “poesía del silencio” española

Abstract

This text analyzes the relationship between the poets Octavio Paz, from Mexico, and José Ángel Valente and Antonio Gamoneda, as members of Spanish “poetry of silence”. Although barely mentioned in their respective works, the obvious similarities in their poetry and essays in the search for a mystical expression and knowledge given the failure of socialist communication in literature are discussed. It also shows that the three have similar inter-textualities (mystical, romantic, surreal) and themes, among which the search for an origin in an ideal past life and in the womb to restart and refine the story, learning the lesson of a postmodernity characterized by human injustice and technological alienation.