Memoria autoficcional y proyección de la identidad en La danza de la araña de Laura Alcoba: una lectura blanchotiana sobre el desastre

Abstract

The memory work that Laura Alcoba recreates in her literary work is revealed from the hesitant and “inoffensive” voice of the narrator. In this sense, the present article proposes to read the latest novel, La danza de la araña (2018), a blanchotian perspective towards disaster. Its postulates converge in a perspective that evidences show what remains to be said when everything has been said: they enunciate the failure of writing, and thus manage to project the identity of the exiled subject on the journey to the traumatic past from a complex perspective. There, not only lines of conflict are drawn on the role that the intimate sphere a girl's voice occupies, but also points of contact are established which allow guiding the writing —from a tone of liberation— as a device that brings to the surface an absent meaning, a “necessary forgetfulness” or a wound that does not heal.