El “tiempo mítico” en “El viento de los reinos” de Efraín Barquero. Vigencia de una propuesta antimoderna

Abstract

The article reflects on the relevance of El viento de los reinos, a poem by the Chilean author Efraín Barquero (1931-2020), in light of the recent publication of its second edition, more than fifty years after the release of the first one. In particular, we study the notion of “mythical time” that emerges from the poem and the way in which it presents itself as an alternative to the notion of “historical time”, in order to evaluate the consequences that such an option generates in the configuration of the identity of the contemporary Western individual.

Keywords

• myth
• efraín barquero
• china
• modern individual
• chilean poetry