Desde mi ventana
The title of Adela Guerrero's book, winner of the 2005 Ediciones Embalaje Grand Prize, Desde mi Ventana (From My Window), places readers precisely on that windowsill from which she observes her own life, which thus becomes ours. The archetypal metaphor in which "house" equals "face" and "window" equ...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidad Santiago de Cali
2025
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| Online Access: | https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/166549 |
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| Summary: | The title of Adela Guerrero's book, winner of the 2005 Ediciones Embalaje Grand Prize, Desde mi Ventana (From My Window), places readers precisely on that windowsill from which she observes her own life, which thus becomes ours. The archetypal metaphor in which "house" equals "face" and "window" equals "eye" is taken here to other levels of consciousness, beginning with that other rhetorical figure that identifies the eyes as "windows of the soul." In Desde mi ventana (From My Window), each poem is a gaze of the spirit in which language captures, in a blink of an eye, a vision that is received as rapture, as revelation. Here, time becomes flexible, and the past appears in all the luminosity of its instantaneous presence, miraculously recovered and received as an epiphany. The theme of these short poems is the rediscovery of childhood, whose sensible paradise is illuminated by an awareness of the sacred immanent in the girl's first wonder, now simultaneously yearning and joy. Thus, there is a double rapture: that of the mature woman who sees herself as a child enraptured in her first contact with the world. Double joy, double jubilation. |
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