The body’s space through the diary’s writing: an approach to split self on Diario del dolor, by María Luisa Puga

Abstract

The following paper analyses the dimensions and representation of the body through the space of fiction.  The dialogue in the book between the narrator and the disease, with the use of writing, becomes a textual expansion phenomenon in Diario del dolor (2004), by María Luisa Puga. The narrator’s consciousness of writing allows a metaphorization of the body in which the emotions allow individual pain to be a way to understand culture’s pain.

      The following paper takes Maurice Blanchot’s point of view of literary space, specifically his reflections on the diary as a phenomenon of the writer. This approach will be supplemented with represented discourse from the perspective of Luz Aurora Pimentel about pantonime as a key element in description. The fragments that are analyzed in this work are the ones in which writing is an explicit action: writing, as an act, will have consequences on the built of fictional space by the dialogue with Dolor (receptor in the novel).