Novela (perdida) dentro de novela: escritura, olvido y testimonio en Miriam de Berdichevsky

Abstract

This article considers the crisis of memory in Berdichevsky's novel, Miriam. Here I propose that, unlike Berdichevsky's early work, Miriam is a novel that does not represent what has been preserved in the text or in memory, but what has been lost. This being its distinctive feature, the novel revolves around the impossible testimony of the forgotten as will be seen in the narrative analysis and, mainly, of the different figures of narration. Thus, this article emphasizes the fact that the novel, as a broken knitted, is not only composed of the preserved textual fragments, but also, and perhaps above all, of the spaces that occur in the fissures of the text.