Title: The Realm of Silence: The Two Novels of Josefina Vicens
Abstract:In the letter to the author that serves as the preface to a recent edition of Josefina Vicens' two narrative works, El libro vacio (1958) and Los anos falsos (1982), Octavio Paz observes that above al...In the letter to the author that serves as the preface to a recent edition of Josefina Vicens' two narrative works, El libro vacio (1958) and Los anos falsos (1982), Octavio Paz observes that above all the first novel is permeated by the theme of nothingness. He detects in it a vision of men and women caminando siempre al borde del vacio, a la orilla de la gran boca de la insignificancia, 'walking on the edge of the void, of the great chasm of insignificance,' as he attributes to this text una filosofia que se enfrenta a la no-significacion radical del mundo 'a philosophy that faces up to the fundamental meaningless ness of the world.'1 To the best of my knowledge Paz has not expressed his views on the second novel, but since the two works have so many thematic links his one comment may be enough to provide a basis for an argument that applies to them both. Indeed, it is by highlighting similarities that I shall attempt to locate the psycho logical origin of the authorial philosophy which Paz may well have been the first to discern.Read More
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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