Para una lectura de El cementerio más hermoso de Chile, de Christian Formoso

Authors

  • Sergio Mansilla Universidad Austral de Chile

Abstract

This article proposes and discusses some aspects of the poetic representation of the Magellanic territory which we find in El cementerio más hermoso de Chile. We advance on the thesis that the metaphor of the cemetary, which functions as a pivotal point for the author, synthesizes the telling of the history of entropy of time and of the place-state, whose unfolding, however, is not absolute death. On the contrary, as Kooch ́s Tehuelche cosmogonic myth –which operates as the subtext for the collection– from the original sadness for loneliness and the enveloping darkness emerges, at last, a world of life with its lights and shadows.

Keywords:

Patagonian imaginary, Chilean poetry, poetry of the Patagonia, poetry and entropy