The autobiographical pose
Essays on Chilean Narrative

Can literary criticism trace the sensitive cartography of a country, its history, morality, customs, rites, subjectivities? And can it do so starting from the autobiographical “pose”—that is, from the way in which the innumerable masks of the self take shape in writing?

That is the challenge and the gift of this book, which invites us to journey in a Borgesian fashion down paths that fork, discover new landscapes, listen to other voices, glimpse scenes against the grain, or, as that untranslatable French expression says, in a different light. Because Lorena Amaro once again performs the memorial gesture of honoring the old names, but to unread the heritage, or better, to read it, with Derrida, in the key of its transformation, in its current flash.