The concept of writing in Silvia Molloy’s Desaticulaciones

Abstract

The paper proposes an exploration of the "novel" Desarticulaciones by Argentine writer Silvia Molloy. It aims to understand how, within this framework, writing becomes an act of memory. The textualization is continually at play among the orders of writing, orality, reading, and literary criticism to reconstitute the absent other of dismemory: M.L., the elusive interlocutor of the narrative voice, suffers from an advanced stage of Alzheimer’s disease. The illness signifies not only the loss of memory but also the loss of linguistic registers. This is why Desarticulaciones engages with the notion of writing for another, writing to ensure that the other endures in the text.