„Celestes Camaradas": Samuel Feijóo o la soledad del chamán
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2007
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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"Celestes Camaradas": Samuel Feijóo or a shaman's solitude
Abstract
Basing on poetic works of Samuel Feijóo, one of Cuba's most prolific artists of the 20th
century, the author of the study tries to establish the symmetries existing between the social
position and work of a shaman and a poet. Thereby, the study brings innovatory vision of
poetic vocation and practice, hence seen (with some restrictions) as modern form of states
and activities that in archaic cultures were those of the shaman. Furthermore, the author
exalts the solitude inscribed in life of both poet and shaman and proves that neither the union
with landscape nor the suspension of the difference between reality and illusion fits in the
Occident scientific language, and they are more likely to be described as transformation
of shaman's ecstatic euphoria.
Putting those theoretical assumptions into practice, the study presents the interpretation of
two poems from Feijóo's first important book of poetry: Camarada Celeste, which are read
as transcriptions of ecstatic journey to the Upper World, and of the fragment of poet's
masterpiece Beth-el, where we descend with him to the Lower World.
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Celestes Camaradas, Feijóo Samuel, Cuba's artist
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Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2007, vol. 34, pp. 261-273
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978-83-232174-7-3