Abstract

BIANCOTTO, Natalia. Unique scenes of a shared childhood: the autobiographies of Victoria and Silvina Ocampo. Anclajes [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.1, pp.1-13. ISSN 1851-4669.

Two dissimilar strategies of construction of the self organize the autobiographical writings of Victoria and Silvina Ocampo; one pursues the reconstruction of memory, the other prefers the opacity of memory. On the one hand, the line of interpretation I develop from Inventions of the memory (2006) -the autobiography in verse of Silvina Ocampo, based on childhood memories- centers around the relation between memory writing, misremembering, and the problem of infancy (Agamben). On the other hand, my reading of El Archipiélago[The Archipelago] (Sur, 1979) -the first volume of Victoria Ocampo's autobiography, corresponding her childhood- aims at showing the way in which the author relies on the possibility of clearly narrating the memory time, using the strategies of classical autobiography (Lejeune).

Keywords : Silvina Ocampo; Victoria Ocampo; Autobiography; Argentinian literature; XXth. century.

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