Abstract

RAMIREZ RIVERA, Bianca Pamela. Vos que me empezaste y quiero que me acabes en la mitad de vos: La mística de la poesía de Juan GelmanVos que empezaste y quiero que me acabes en la mitad de vos: The Mystical Poetry of Juan Gelman. Acta poét [online]. 2014, vol.35, n.2, pp.51-67. ISSN 2448-735X.

The mystical experience is a phenomenon that just a few people experience, and even for those people, it's complicated to explain what it meant and what it still means in their lives. Stories of ancient and contemporary mystics are scattered around the world and do not belong to a single religion. Thus, it is possible to find mystical experiences stories of practitioners of several religions such as Islam, Judaism or Catholicism. Juan Gelman, poet, essayist and journalist, is one of the most important figures of contemporary literature in Latin America. With his journalistic texts and poems, he could denounce the injustices of his country's politics; and was also a personality that starkly gave an account of one of the bloodiest processes occurring in Argentine: the military dictatorship. Gelman also approached the phenomenon of mystical experience. Whether it was a sense of identification (feeling as a foreigner) or through the search of 'the mystical' (which transcends him as a human being), Gelman is a Latin American author whose phase of mystical poetry is central to understand this phenomenon through literature. This essay aims to explore Juan Gelman's vein as a seeker and narrator of mystical experience. This will be traced from the material of this nature that the author left in his works, Citas y Comentarios, Com/posiciones and Dibaxu, as well as from his revision of the jewish tradition mystics.

Keywords : Gelman; mystical; experience; dibaxu; Jewish tradition.

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