Infancias monstruosas: Debimos ser felices, de Rafaela Lahore, y Mugre rosa, de Fernanda Trías
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https://doi.org/10.21827/mistral.2.38026Keywords:
Infancia, Monstruosidad, Genealogía, Memoria, Distopía, Childhood, Monstrosity, Genealogy, Memory, DystopiaAbstract
The following article analyzes the novels Debimos ser Felices, by Rafaela Lahore and Mugre rosa, by Fernanda Trías, both published in 2020. While Lahore works her way through remembrance in an intimate, fragmentary, autobiographical way, Trías’ narrative is complex, apocalyptic, and dystopic. It ranges from a progressive uncertainty about the present to memory’s capacity to hang on to family affections. However, they converge in their narratives’ subtle, dreamlike atmospheres that focus on the voice of children fluctuating between abnormality and monstrosity. Their reflections emphasize the reconstruction of their respective genealogies through reminiscence.
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El siguiente artículo analiza las novelas Debimos ser felices, de Rafaela Lahore, y Mugre rosa, de Fernanda Trías, ambas publicadas en 2020. Si bien comparten ciertas atmósferas sutiles, casi oníricas, Lahore trabaja el recuerdo de manera íntima, fragmentaria y autobiográfica, mientras que la narración de Trías se proyecta como una compleja novela apocalíptica, distópica, que oscila entre la progresiva incertidumbre del presente y la capacidad del recuerdo para aferrarse a los afectos familiares. Ambas ponen en el centro de sus reflexiones a niños y niñas que transitan entre la anomalía y la monstruosidad, con un fuerte acento en la reconstrucción memoriosa de sus respectivas genealogías.
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