Posmodernidad y crítica a la lógica de la identidad en Paradiso de Lezama Lima

Abstract

The desire to control reality through identity thought is, according to Wellmer among others, our legacy from the enlightenment, and what Postmodernism has attacked. Paradiso, by Lezama Lima, is one of the great latin american literary works where this attack is evident, sexuality being the point where it is most clear. This article looks into some points of Paradiso, where the author re-fuses to define his characters and their speeches, thus leaving questions open about the impossibility to classify reality. Nietzche’s apollonian-dionysian dialectics, fundamental precursor of Postmodernism, is used as the interpretive key to this text.