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GIRAUD, Paul-Henri. “Silence is music”. Suspension of the word and poetics of the sacred in Octavio Paz. Valenciana [online]. 2021, vol.14, n.28, pp.203-218.  Epub 18-Oct-2021. ISSN 2007-2538.  https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v13i28.604.

Often, in Paz, the poetic process itself and the experience of fullness to which it leads are described in quasi-religious terms, as a path of initiation that leads to a kind of ecstasy. This article aims to investigate the relationship between the poetic word and the sacred in the work of the Mexican poet, adhering more particularly to the notion of silence. It was during the years of his longest stay in India, as ambassador of Mexico, between 1962 and 1968, that Paz made silence the “culmination” of the word, giving it a sacred aura. But echoes of such a conception can be found in the final stage of his writing, and even in his last poem.

Palabras llave : Word; Silence; Sacred; Buddha; Otherness.

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