Género y metaforización de la creación literaria en dos obras de Ricardo Piglia

• Main Author: Teresa Orecchia Havas
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Nacional de La Plata 2009-11-01
• Series: Orbis Tertius
• Subjects: La ciudad ausente; Mitos de género; Experiencia imaginaria; Memoria; Fantasías autorales; Voz femenina
• Online Access: http://revistas.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/index.php/OT/article/view/2467

The reflection on language and on the experience of limits which characterizes modern literature has in literary worksoften taken the form of a contradictory debate over the female figure and gender. La ciudad ausente explores the imaginary of the [im]possible sex and of the journey of the female other with an original device in which the allegorization of the textual functioning and the fictionalization of a subversive femininity converge, apart from the evocation of some important models in the author's literary canon. This article analyzes the meaning of gender myths [the marginal and rebel woman] and the variants in the narrative of origins of the literary creation, as well as the representation of the phantasmal artist-work couple in the novel, concluding with an evaluation of the same issue in the opera script and performance