El mono gramático: entre lenguaje y cuerpo.

This essay analyses Octavio Paz's The Monkey Grammarian with the purpose of demonstrating that connections, spaces and states represented by the preposition between constitute an important interpretative key. The between that links language and the body is especially relevant in The Monkey Grammarian. At the same time, the language-body connection so present in this book is a fea-ture of Octavio Paz's writing as a whole. The between is indicative of the vivacity of Paz's poetic works, as well as his particular interest in what he called otherness. Paz believed that momentary reconciliations between life's contradictions could come about through poetic language and bodily love. The image of the fold is taken up toward the end of this essay. Here we connect Paz's sexual imagery to a more universal reading that focuses again on the language-body junction so crucial to The Monkey Grammarian and other works by Octavio Paz. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]