El círculo de la melancolíaestrategias narrativas y simbólicas de maduración psicológica en Varada tras el último naufragio (1980), de Esther Tusquet

  1. Margarita García Candeira 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Huelva, España
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Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat

ISSN: 1136-5781

Year of publication: 2015

Issue Title: Noir and Female. Women Writers of Crime Novel in the Iberian Peninsula

Issue: 21

Pages: 177-193

Type: Article

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Abstract

This essay explores the dynamics of psychological maturation developed in Varada tras el último naufragio, a novel published by Barcelonian writer Esther Tusquets in 1980, as a process that departs from a trauma and reaches a specific positive solution through a plot tacitly inspired in classic psychoanalytical discourse. The protagonist Elia’s melancholia is resolved through a dialectic that follows a circular pattern, which implies a return to the past in order to establish a solid identity basis to enable her to successfully reincorporate herself into the world and assertively face the future.

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