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La tía Julia y el escribidor: The Writing Subject's Fantasy of Empowerment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Carlos J. Alonso
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Abstract

Mario Vargas Llosa's La tía Julia y el escribidor consists of the rigorous alternation of two textual registers that nonetheless appear to have little in common. A careful reading reveals that these seemingly unrelated tracts can be taken jointly as a fantasy depicting the triumph of oedipal desire and configuring a tale of the author's coming into being. This fantasy provides an insight into the ideology of writing that underlies Vargas Llosa's entire textual production. The phantasmatic empowerment of the writing subject thus identified is linked finally to Vargas Llosa's widely disseminated pronouncements regarding economic and political agency in Latin America and to his equally influential views on the nature of the literary act.

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Hispanic Cluster
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PMLA , Volume 106 , Issue 1 , January 1991 , pp. 46 - 59
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1991

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