Laura Erber on Latin Americaâs literary encounters with India: CecĂlia Meireles, Octavio Paz, Julio CortĂĄzar:
Octavio Pazâs India is more intellectual. In Ladera Este (1969) and El mono gramĂĄtico (1974), he used India to think through language, desire, and time itself, returning always to the comparison with Mexico: two ancient civilisations shaped by colonialism, both carrying a pre-colonial inheritance that modernity tried and failed to erase.
In Vislumbres de la India, he describes arriving in Bombay and feeling a jolt of recognition â the pre-Columbian pyramids of Teotihuacan and the temple complexes of South India arising in his prose as rhyming structures, evidence of a shared human impulse to inhabit time against forgetting.
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