Happiness and poiesis in Clara Obligado's narrative: model kit

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2018302053

Keywords:

exile, eccentric writing, hybrid gender, borgian labyrinth, branched novel, garden, happiness

Abstract

Clara Obligado’s narrative work has its origins in her exile in Argentine, back in 1976. This circumstance drives her poetic activity into an eccentric and border writing, in both genders’ and language’s border. In La muerte juega a los dados, the reader will find not only a set of tales rich in voices and diverse narrative styles but also the experimentation of a new gender. This is so because a form of branched novel, arising in the tales’ syntax -as Borgian’s labyrinth-, is built along the reading. The characters’ fates make up a fractal model full of beauty and poetic emotion in which every detail is part of an assembly that can change its whole meaning; and all of it despite the apparent chaos. Between fate and chance, the writing utility is represented as a potential happy destiny.

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Author Biography

Begoña Alonso Mondero, University of Burgos

Universidad de Burgos. Departamento de Filología.

Área de Teoría de la literatura y Literatura comparada. Profesor asociado.

 

Published

2018-07-09

How to Cite

Alonso Mondero, B. (2018). Happiness and poiesis in Clara Obligado’s narrative: model kit. Tropelías: Review of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, (30), 92–110. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2018302053

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Received 2017-07-30
Accepted 2018-04-07
Published 2018-07-09