Poetry
El ciervo radiante
Not translated into English
Orfila Bardesio · 1984
Synopsis
Short poems in free verse, several of them dedicated to the people closest to the woman who writes, to her daughter and to each of her sons. At the centre stands the figure of the radiant stag, who overcomes death by his own death; light there is blood, and love lasts beyond what passes. Spiritual exaltation mingles with the celebration of the pleasure of the body, lived without guilt, as a natural good, and one poem takes up the figure of Job.
Context
The collection was published in 1984, about ten years after the author's return to Montevideo. A critic places it, not without caution, in a second period of her work, together with the third book of Uno (1971) and La flor del llanto (1973): a more meditative poetry, with more precise language and shorter poems. In 2012, a Spanish poet reproduced five of its poems in an article in the online journal Protestante Digital.
Who it is for
A collection of short poems in Spanish, Christian and sensual in inspiration; no French translation.
Prizes and reception
First prize of the city of Montevideo, it is held by an encyclopaedia to be the masterpiece of its author.
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