Diseccionar la sexualidad: experiencia desubjetivante, disidencia y voz narrativa en Versuch über die Pubertät de Hubert Fichte

Abstract

This article deals with the analysis of one of the most important literary texts in the history of sexual dissidence in Germany in the second half of the 20th century: Versuch über die Pubertät (1974) by Hubert Fichte. This work offers a quite complex portrait of dissident sexualities in post-war Germany, where homosexuality remained prohibited – as it was during Nazism– by the 175th paragraph of the Penal Code (which was not partially abolished until 1969, and fully abolished until 1994). I will focus, mainly, on matters related to dissident identities and the enunciative “I”. In fact, Fichte’s novel deconstructs the protagonist’s subjectivity by means of a series of poetic wordplay which disassemble the “I” that enunciates. This way, identities –particularly homosexual identity– as something stable and fixed are put into question thus eroding the shape of the novel at the same time.