Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent: José Lezama Lima, Hereafter,Thereafter.
Director Mauricio Hernández
Countries France, Mexico
Duration 167 min
Synopsis
Rarely can one completely identify a man with a city. It is the case, as María Zambrano has said, of Thomas and Aquinas, Socrates and Athens or indeed José Lezama Lima and Havana, it is rarer still, we should add, that such an identification may be extended to the realm of language, to the degree that it can be said that Spanish is a Lezamian creed. The film proposes to approach an oeuvre which, despite the fragmentation imposed by of the authoritarianism of History, reveals itself today – a hundred years after the birth of the poet - through its historical and philosophical impact, as a singular and necessary point of departure in contemporary thought.
Rarely can one completely identify a man with a city. It is the case, as María Zambrano has said, of Thomas and Aquinas, Socrates and Athens or indeed José Lezama Lima and Havana, it is rarer still, we should add, that such an identification may be extended to the realm of language, to the degree that it can be said that Spanish is a Lezamian creed. The film proposes to approach an oeuvre which, despite the fragmentation imposed by of the authoritarianism of History, reveals itself today – a hundred years after the birth of the poet - through its historical and philosophical impact, as a singular and necessary point of departure in contemporary thought.