Vicente Huidobro' Altazor and the onomatopeia of flight

Authors

  • Eduardo Espina Texas A&M University (Estados Unidos)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7764/ANALESLITCHI.09.04

Keywords:

Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948), Altazor, (1931), technological revolution, crítical reading, Modern world, language failure, self-referential sounds

Abstract

The originality of Altazor, Voyage in Parachute coincides with the dawn of a new world era characterized by a technological revolution that was marked bv the appearance of such twentieth-century artifacts as television, radio, and airplanes. The poem reflects the beginning of this new era and can be interpreted as a critical reading of the modern world which gives expression to the impossibility of signification  that is, to the first great failure of language as an instrument of knowledge. In this sense, the poem is an expression of the consolidation of a "guttural era, " characterized by self-referential sounds that take the place of words

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Published

2008-06-30

How to Cite

Espina, E. . (2008). Vicente Huidobro’ Altazor and the onomatopeia of flight. Anales De Literatura Chilena, (9), 67–84. https://doi.org/10.7764/ANALESLITCHI.09.04

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