When memory talks a trick. About Confesión by Martín Kohan
We approach “Confesión” by Martín Kohan (2020). Three stories build the plot of this novel to come together in a single one. We are interested in analyzing not only the significance that the title in the singular anticipates, but also the confessions that are delineated in the novel through differen...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Letras
2024
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/heterotopias/article/view/45431 |
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| Sumario: | We approach “Confesión” by Martín Kohan (2020). Three stories build the plot of this novel to come together in a single one. We are interested in analyzing not only the significance that the title in the singular anticipates, but also the confessions that are delineated in the novel through different nuances (Barthes, 2004). We understand that confession can be thought of as a technology (Foucault, 1991), a technique that produces truth as an effect, as well as an enunciative mechanism of truth. In the novel, several figures of confession are configured: that of the erotic-sexual "sin" more fantasized than consummated by an adolescent girl; that of a desperate mother who seeks help from a soldier, betraying her own son in her desire to save him; that of a grandmother who, by telling a story, confesses the story of her father to her grandson in the family sphere. However, this is not the story of a search for truth. Truth as symptom emerges where the subject can no longer remain silent. From these approaches we ask ourselves about the "confession" in the stories narrated: what are these confessions?, how to read them?, from which figures and nuances are they constructed?, what are the effects they produce? |
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