El exilio dentro y fuera: La Ciudad de Gonzalo Millán, 1979 y 1994

Abstract

This article analyzes some of the differences and peculiarities of two editions (in 1979  and 1994 ) of the book of poetry La Ciudad by Chilean poet Gonzalo Millán, demonstrating important changes in the later version. The article attempts to explain the way in which the poet reconstructs, through writing, the homeland he lost while in exile. His poetry becomes a mechanism of survival. The 1990 's edition gives an account of a new socio-political context after democracy's return to Chile. In addition, through the text's permeability, exile and repatriation become a constant mode of re-invention.