Abstract
In section XII in chapter 2 of Los pasos perdidos, the narrator reaches an area of the South American jungle which, in his calculation of his movement back through the stages of civilization, he calls del (177). As always, his immediate reaction is highly wrought description-the construction of a complex semantic web to make sense of the unknown. This description of the del emphasizes physicality: the vivid sounds, smells and colours associated with horses and blacksmiths are invoked and also an imagined male rider's display of horse and self for a young woman (177-78). These romantic associations lead into a description of the man who inhabits this geographical-cum-temporal environment: En las Tierras del Caballo parecia que el fuera mas hombre (178). And the passage continues through a celebratory characterization of this archetypal man. His attributes are centred on control of the materials that he works, of the horse that he rides, and of the women whom he knows how to subdue:
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