Este articulo indaga sobre las relaciones entre la obra poetica de Hector Rojas Herazo y su primera novela Respirando el verano (1967). Se demuestra que el genero lirico ingresa en la novela, al ser representado un sujeto que experimenta y capta el mundo exterior mediante los sentidos corporales. Esto se pone de manifiesto entres apartados que hablan del caracter lirico del narrador, del lenguaje poetico, de la vivencia del tiempo y de los personajes. Se concluye que estacaptacion es una busqueda de la patria trascendental, que no se concreta, y profundiza la ruptura entre lo exterior y lo interior. Abstract This paper queries the relation between Hector Rojas Herazo’s poetic work and his first novel Respirando el verano (1967). It is shown that the lyrical genre comes in the novel, because it is represented a subject that experiences and captures the exterior worldthrough the corporal senses. It is proved in three sections that talk about lyrical character of narrator, the poetic language, the experience of time and characters. It is concluded that this catchment is a search of the transcendental motherland, that isn’t crystallized and deepens the disruption between the interior and exterior world.