La alquimia poetica de Octavio Paz: (La) Gran Obra en transformacion y movimiento

This eclectic and deconstructive approach is a description and exposition, and at times an alchemical narrative of the work of Octavio Paz, centered on the paradigms of transformation and motion as seen in Paz's poetry and essays. Particular attention has been paid, during the act of reading and writing Paz's alchemical discourse, to the various forms of the poet's expression in the territory delineated by his parameters of displacement and transmutation. The study traces the various ways in which a fragment of reference develops from its origin along the line(s) of discourse(s) to the end, in other words, how a particular piece of information (i.e. the influence of Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier in Octavio Paz's poetic alchemical dialectic) shows its evolution through vast territories of writing practically unexplored by the critics. Furthermore, since 'deconstruction' is a powerful critique of the traditional set of oppositions articulated by Western philosophy, Derrida's system of thought fits naturally into the study of alchemy (as it appears in Paz's work). Both share identical objectives: overcoming the limitations of the ambivalent literary and philosophical tradition as portrayed in Western literature and philosophy; the possibility of the transformation of the human condition (as the true goal of alchemy); and the empowering of the writer, and the reader, through the acquisition of a higher state of literary awareness.