Abstract
The article analyzes the representation of wandering in relation to the experience of fugue in the novel Mal de época, by the Argentine writer María Sonia Cristoff, as a way of questioning the politics of everyday modern and postmodern mobility. Throughout an investigation on Albert Dadas -diagnosed with dissociative fugue- and the story of a character involved in an attack, wandering defines the fugues of the characters, on the one hand, as a break with the conditions of control and power of their own contexts; and, on the other, as an atmosphere of dislocation and dissolution of identities that, through waiting and boredom, embody the mood of a crisis and a deterritorializing experience.
Translated title of the contribution | Fugue and Wandering in María Sonia Cristoff's Mal de época |
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Original language | Spanish |
Pages (from-to) | 55-75 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | Taller de Letras |
Issue number | 72 |
State | Published - 2023 |
Externally published | Yes |