El desenmascaramiento de la realidad en Canto villano

Abstract

This article examines the way Blanca Varela's Canto villano(1978) displays her ideas about God's image and its relationship with the human destiny. Her reflections, as shown in those poems, are neither encouraging nor comforting. Uncovering the truth and unmasking the real involve confronting the ephemeral, emptiness, and loneliness and embracing them. They also require extricating oneself from traditional beliefs inherited mainly from Christianity and focusing on the material aspects of humanity and on the bodily self as a way to knowledge.