T.S. Eliot y Octacio Paz
Modern poetry adopted a critical stance toward the prevailing values and discourses of the 20th century. Through the most representative and influential cultural figures in their respective societies, T. S. Eliot and Octavio Paz, Pedro Serrano proposes a novel approach to the paradigms of this period. They were not contemporaries, came from different cultural backgrounds, and wrote in different languages. However, they understood poetry in parallel ways, shared achievements and contradictions, and identified themselves as poets within their corresponding cultural contexts. Drawing on a broad selection of their work, Serrano analyzes how both poets shared a way of confronting their everyday and intellectual concerns in their poetry and literary criticism. The result is an atypical guide for reading and rereading Paz and Eliot from a new perspective.
