Abstract

ZUCCARDI, Soledad Martínez. Rebellion, province, disease. Self-figuration in Aire tan dulce by Elvira Orphée. CELEHIS [online]. 2021, n.41, pp.41-50. ISSN 2313-9463.

The problem of the author and the figuration of the writer in the work is object of a renewed attention for Literary criticism (Scarano 2014). This article proposes a new perspective on Aire tan dulce, novel by Elvira Orphée published in 1966, that precisely aspires to recover the link between the text and the author. Even though the novel is not autobiographical, there are several coincidences between certain features of the protagonist and the elements used by Orphée in order to elaborate her “figure of an author” (Premat 2009) and to construct, in interviews and conversations, an image of herself and of her vital experience in Tucumán, the Argentinian province where she was born and would soon abandon. Those coincidences are examined taking into consideration two issues: rebellion and disease. The analysis reveals the circulation of contents among character and author, and postulates that the protagonist of Aire tan dulce can be thought as a sort of imaginary projection of the author and, in that way, as part of a process of self-figuration in the fiction of the work.

Keywords : author figure; argentinian novel; 20^th Century; Elvira Orphée.

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