From “the symbolic wood” to the mythic interpretation of evil. A reading of Vision de los hijos del mal by Miguel Angel Bustos.

Abstract

An approach to Miguel Angel Bustos's poetry requires a methodological reexamination that does not sever its semantic flow. A poetry that seeks deep and heightened sense and that conceives its word as verb of divine origin cannot be analyzed without the understanding of the prefigured transcendence of its genesis. Attending to this predicament, we observe that the ricoeurian hermeneutics provides us with a consonant tool which forges a bond between word and existence. In Vision de los hijos del mal, Ricoeur's concepts of symbol and myth allow an access to the close relation among the experience of evil, language and sense.