Identidades latino-americanas e literatura - um olhar ecologista sobre a obra de Octávio Paz

Abstract

This essay has as main aim to make a reflexion about the way we approach the different conflicts in our society. My attention turns into the cur- rent environmental issues at this moment.I will make an exercise of dialogue between the literary work and the knowledge production from the starting point of the idea that the literature builds up in one more possibility of dia- logue with the world, once there is a permanent relationship among author, reader, text and society. As a theoretical reference to this essay I'll take the ideas of the mexican poet and essayist Octávio Paz (1914-1988).