Turning into another woman: The strangeness of narrative voice in Silvina Ocampo

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  • Judith Podlubne

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v0i2p236-265

Abstract

A unique narrative tone distinguishes the tales of Viaje olvidado, Silvina Ocampo´s first book, Articulating the concept of "narrative voice" postulated by Maurice Blanchot, this article proposes, a reading that specifies what is this uniqueness. The idea that crosses our reading argues that the perplexity caused by these stories is not due, as often pointed by the critics, to an alienation to which the story´s perspective would be subjected, but to the surprise of a "narrative voice", irreducible to its formal performance, that avoids the identification and always remains undetermined. In most cases, the stories present, in a very rare third person, impossible to characterize in an unambiguous way, the event of on unrepeatable experience: the one that takes place before the occurrence of a spontaneous and trivial remembrance, or a dream, a fantasy, an obsession, or even something which is sometimes difficult to establish as one thing or the ohter. A voice that does and doesn´t refer to the voice of the story´s protagonist, a voice driven by the strength of the story and not by an incident of the past, that tell us the discreet schock caused in the present by that resonance of what still doesné occur back in the past.

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Author Biography

  • Judith Podlubne
    Professora das áreas de Análise e Crítica e Literatura Argentina da Facultad de Humanidades y Artes de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina. Pesquisadora Adjunta do Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas  (CONICET).

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Published

2011-12-07

How to Cite

PODLUBNE, Judith. Turning into another woman: The strangeness of narrative voice in Silvina Ocampo. Caracol, São Paulo, Brasil, n. 2, p. 236–265, 2011. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v0i2p236-265. Disponível em: https://www.journals.usp.br/caracol/article/view/57663.. Acesso em: 19 may. 2024.