La configuración del cuerpo humano, de los objetos, de lo natural, del espacio y del tiempo en Jorge Eduardo Eielson

Abstract

I analyze a selection of poems from Habitación en Roma (1952) and Noche oscura del cuerpo (1955) by Jorge Eduardo Eielson and I focus on the configuration of the human body, objects, nature, space and time as mobile structures and in continuous transformation. In both books, a cartography of the natural, the material and the human is made present from its most precarious dimension, where nothing and everything are liminal rooms, and the lyrical self moves anxious and uncertain between the two. There is a poetics of bewilderment which is manifested through the gaze of an itinerant lyrical self, who transits not only from one place to another but from one time to another, from one body to another. To delve into the fragmented use of time and space, I will resort, as a theoretical basis, to the book Phenomenology of Perception by M. Merleau-Ponty.