The silences of the archive. Notes about Desierto sonoro (2019) by Valeria Luiselli
Valeria Luiselli's latest novel, Desierto sonoro (2019), focuses on the migratory conflict that took place in the US in 2014 and is built on paradox: giving testimony about what is no longer there, and which is irretrievable. With this objective, Luiselli carries out an inquiry in the operation...
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2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://badebec.unr.edu.ar/index.php/badebec/article/view/567 |
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| Sumario: | Valeria Luiselli's latest novel, Desierto sonoro (2019), focuses on the migratory conflict that took place in the US in 2014 and is built on paradox: giving testimony about what is no longer there, and which is irretrievable. With this objective, Luiselli carries out an inquiry in the operational field of the archive to find a formal structure that allows her to make the document speak from those spaces that express silences within it. In this direction, the narrator's children and their games occupy a central place in the novel, since they generate a space for processing the impossibility of capturing what is no longer there. The novel finds in the children and their games a way to resolve the tension raised around the archive, their absences and the migrant children who disappeared in transit. |
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