Holdontotheshards;abouttheideaofthefatherinsomemomentsoftheliteraryworkofRaúlZurita

Abstract

This article seeks to problematize the idea of God, the father, in some moments of the work of the poet Raúl Zurita. Specialized critics have pointed out the presence or absence of God as a fundamental element in the poetics and aesthetics of the Chilean author. Generally, critics postulate that Zurita seeks, through his work, to alleviate the helplessness in which the father has left his child. This paper addresses some lines of discussion about the conception of God or the father in the poems “La vida nueva” and “Mi amor de dios”, in which God is hunger, pain, desolation and abandonment. From orphanhood or desolation would be possible the emergence of beauty, love and poetry. The latter, according to Zurita's ideas, are the splinters of the dialogue that God holds with himself.