ALTAZOR VICENTE HUIDOBRO: GESTURE IN POLITICAL OF EPIC OF XX

Abstract

This article proposes a lecture of the Vicente Huidobros poem Altazor (1931) assuming the epic genre postulations and its development conditions in the first half of the 20th century. Important works were produced in that period, putting in motion the epic genre from an unfolding of the vanguards and as a discussion of the metaphysical formulations that had considered it impossible as a discursive space in the modernity. Altazor is inserted in this movement as an autoconscience of the language problematic and its objective capacities. The work deals about the possible modes of enunciation to a great poet, Altazor, who is empty of the serenity of old and looks for one tongue able to transcend the maternal tongue, because he does not accept its origin. The political revolution works into the language, this artifice that says the history.

Keywords

• gênero épico
• modernidade
• linguagem e história.