Zombie Children. A biopolitic reading of Dos mujeres en Praga and Laura y Julio by Juan José Millás

• Main Author: Sofía Dolzani
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata 2019-03-01
• Series: Estudios de Teoría Literaria
• Subjects: Zombi; niños; biopolítica; Millás
• Online Access: https://fh.mdp.edu.ar/revistas/index.php/etl/article/view/2680

This work reflects on the way the literature of Juan José Millás presents a questioning about the bodies. This questioning enabling us a reading of them as figurations of zombie children. Our hypothesis is the figure of the zombie child operates as a place of political resistance and generates new intelligibility frames. The zombie child reverses the logics of helplessness and enables the configuration of other types of affective communities. The life of a zombie child becomes a life not only legitimate to be lived, but also written. This hypothesis is worked on in the novels Dos mujeres en Praga and Laura y Julio but it wants to show a modus operandi that goes through the narrative of this autor. And that allows us to think, from biopolitics, the configuration of the Millás’ poetic like a poetic monstrous.