Gabriela Mistral between the limit and the threshold

Abstract

This article propposes a reading of Mistral’s oeuvre focusing on death not as a topic but as a concept that the poet invented so her readers could recognize themselves in it. More than her sexuality or her sexual preferences, what’s important is to read this poet’s production as a reflection on a human fact for which we apparently have no words to describe. Mistral’s poetry, however, especially in her book Tala, is rich with words that portray death as a metaphor for a voyage. To walk, at least partially, this voyage’s road, is the purpose of this pages.