Discovery and gestation of the self in El Primer Libro and Albricia by Soledad Fariña

Authors

  • Ana María Riveros Soto Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Abstract

This study presents an interpretation of the configuration of the poetic subject in the books of poems El Primer Libro (1985) and Albricia (1988) by Soledad Fariña (1943), which understand a self in a continuous process of gestation and birth. This process serves the purpose of recomposing a disarticulated subjectivity lost in the framework of the political and cultural conditions imposed by the military dictatorship that ruled Chile in the 1970s and 1980s. By using a metaphor of a journey and searching for a new language, the subject attempts to this process of maturation and discovery is intervened and left incomplete by the impulse of modernity, thereby creating a deformed, dissociated and off-centered self, which aims at growing opposed to logos. This conflict turns the upcoming of the new self into a painful event, like giving birth, that stems from the subject’s wounded and fractured body, intending to re-establish de self from its fragments, traces and memories.

Keywords:

Subject, journey, gestation, discovery, language