mandato de parecerse a una cara: desertificación y reconstrucción en El desierto y su semilla de Jorge Baron Biza

Authors

  • Alejandro Soifer University of Toronto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v44i2.6134

Abstract

The novel El desierto y su semilla by Jorge Baron Biza fictionalizes the real-life incident in which the writer, pornographer, politician, and Argentinian dandy Raúl Baron Biza attacked his wife Clotilde Sabattini by hurling at her face a glass full of sulfuric acid resulting in her deformity for life. The literary artifact penned by Jorge Baron Biza, son of the attacker and the victim, not only attempts a representation of the attack, but at the same time it creates a parallel between the reconstruction process of his disfigured mother and the construction of the Argentinian national narrative.

 

Published

2021-11-23

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