What is it about?
This article provides a context for reading Remedios Varo's autobiographical trilogy Bordando el manto terrestre as the culminating vision of an artist who repeatedly presents her protagonists as embarked on a journey which may be conceptualized as a rite of passage or initiation into 'higher knowledge'. The authors consider the figures as 'liminars', always about to cross a line, reaching for a desired object or poised to step into a different, transcendent reality.
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Why is it important?
The article builds on insights from other scholars but insists on the specificity of an inner, mystical journey. Suggests key role Jung's ideas may have played in making a transition from surrealism and traces the emergence of the theme of an inner journey.
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This page is a summary of: Crossing the Threshold: Mysticism, Liminality, and Remedios Varo’s
Bordando el manto terrestre (1961-62), Modern Languages Open, September 2016, Liverpool University Press,
DOI: 10.3828/mlo.v0i0.138.
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