Happiness and poiesis in Clara Obligado's narrative: model kit

Abstract

Clara Obligado’s narrative work has its origins in her exile in Argentine, back in 1976. This circumstance drives her poetic activity into an eccentric and border writing, in both genders’ and language’s border. In La muerte juega a los dados, the reader will find not only a set of tales rich in voices and diverse narrative styles but also the experimentation of a new gender. This is so because a form of branched novel, arising in the tales’ syntax -as Borgian’s labyrinth-, is built along the reading. The characters’ fates make up a fractal model full of beauty and poetic emotion in which every detail is part of an assembly that can change its whole meaning; and all of it despite the apparent chaos. Between fate and chance, the writing utility is represented as a potential happy destiny.