Writing his India: poetic and philosophical conjunctions in Octavio Paz's writing in India

The aim of this thesis is to trace the philosophical roots of Octavio Pazs poetry written during his tenure in India between 1962-1968. The following chapters examine the role of Hindu and Western philosophical thought on the poet, as well as looking at the Indian landscapes dynamic, natural scenes as influential. With special attention to the collection Ladera este and the poetic narrative El mono gramtico, the analyses examine Pazs poetic work as forms of critical-philosophical dialogue by using the Hindu Advaita-Vedanta tradition, the late writing of Martin Heidegger on poetics, as well as the Deleuzian concept of becoming as methods of reading Pazs work written in or about India.