Infancias póstumas y el tiempo de l’Enfantin

• Main Author: Victoria Liendo
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Réseau Interuniversitaire d'Ètude des Littératures Contemporaines du Río de la Plata 2014-12-01
• Series: Cuadernos LIRICO
• Subjects: childhood; posthumous; Enfantin; body; style
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/lirico/1812

Isn’t childhood always a posthumous tale ? This work approaches childhood as an origin that refuses to be identified with the beginning of a life. On the contrary, it is a primeval moment that never fails to happen, subverting the linearity of time to which autobiography usually tends. The body has a memory, and houses infantile perceptions that haven’t yet been articulated in word. They later find a sudden random expression in writing. From Péju’s notion of l’Enfantin, the comparative study of Witold Gombrowicz’s and Victoria Ocampo’s childhood stories reveals the coexistence of different temporalities in one same first person, the traces of a memorial body and a risky hint of their styles’ origin.