Childhood fever. Beginnings of a pathological imagination in El orden alfabético of Juan José Millás

This article analyzes the novel El orden alfabético (1998) by the Spanish writer Juan José Millás and read there one of the inflections with which the discursivization of the disease is manifested. The hypothesis in this work holds that the narration of the disease leads us to read the construction...

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Autor principal: Dolzani, Sofía
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades 2023
Materias:
imagination
lecture
childhood
illness
Millás
imaginación
enfermedad
lectura
infancia
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/43447
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spelling I10-R377-article-434472024-03-11T00:03:28Z Childhood fever. Beginnings of a pathological imagination in El orden alfabético of Juan José Millás La fiebre de la infancia. Comienzos de una imaginación patológica en El orden alfabético de Juan José Millás Dolzani, Sofía imagination lecture childhood illness Millás imaginación enfermedad lectura infancia Millás This article analyzes the novel El orden alfabético (1998) by the Spanish writer Juan José Millás and read there one of the inflections with which the discursivization of the disease is manifested. The hypothesis in this work holds that the narration of the disease leads us to read the construction of an inaugural myth: this myth articulates fever, childhood and reading under the figure of the sick child as elements that synthesize the beginning of a pathological imagination. This type of imagination makes feverish symptoms a fertile area for the production of fiction and tells us a reader origin. On the one hand, this origin myth relates an approach to reading conditioned by the disease, and, on the other hand, makes visible a metapoetic element of Millás’ novels that shows the materiality with which he constructs his narrative universe. In this way, the article traces a journey through the relationships between illness and literature, and childhood and feverish reading, to elucidate the appropriations with which in this novel Millás turns a common topic into an area of fictional productivity. Este artículo analiza la novela El orden alfabético (1998) del escritor español Juan José Millás para leer allí una de las inflexiones con las que la discursivización de la enfermedad se manifiesta en la narrativa de este autor. La hipótesis que articula este trabajo sostiene que la narración de la enfermedad conduce a leer la construcción de un mito inaugural: aquel que articula bajo la figura del niño enfermo fiebre, infancia y lectura como elementos que sintetizan el inicio de una imaginación patológica que hace de los síntomas febriles una zona fecunda para la producción de ficción y permite la fabulación de un origen lector. Dicho origen relata, por un lado, un acercamiento a la lectura condicionado por la enfermedad, y, por otro lado, desde una mirada ampliada y proyectada hacia la obra, vuelve visible el modo en que lo patológico constituye un elemento metapoético que dice la imaginación literaria de Millás y la materialidad con que construye su universo narrativo. De esta manera, el artículo traza un recorrido por las relaciones entre enfermedad y literatura, e infancia y lectura febril, para elucidar las apropiaciones con que en esta novela Millás hace de un tópico común una zona de productividad ficcional.   Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades 2023-12-07 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/43447 10.53971/2718.658x.v15.n24.43447 Recial; Vol. 14 Núm. 24 (2023): Dossier: Figuras de la crítica: gestos, esferas e imágenes; 322-333 2718-658X 1853-4112 10.53971/2718.658x.v14.n24 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/43447/43502 https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/43447/43526 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
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lecture
childhood
illness
Millás
imaginación
enfermedad
lectura
infancia
Millás
spellingShingle imagination
lecture
childhood
illness
Millás
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enfermedad
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infancia
Millás
Dolzani, Sofía
Childhood fever. Beginnings of a pathological imagination in El orden alfabético of Juan José Millás
topic_facet imagination
lecture
childhood
illness
Millás
imaginación
enfermedad
lectura
infancia
Millás
author Dolzani, Sofía
author_facet Dolzani, Sofía
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title Childhood fever. Beginnings of a pathological imagination in El orden alfabético of Juan José Millás
title_short Childhood fever. Beginnings of a pathological imagination in El orden alfabético of Juan José Millás
title_full Childhood fever. Beginnings of a pathological imagination in El orden alfabético of Juan José Millás
title_fullStr Childhood fever. Beginnings of a pathological imagination in El orden alfabético of Juan José Millás
title_full_unstemmed Childhood fever. Beginnings of a pathological imagination in El orden alfabético of Juan José Millás
title_sort childhood fever. beginnings of a pathological imagination in el orden alfabético of juan josé millás
description This article analyzes the novel El orden alfabético (1998) by the Spanish writer Juan José Millás and read there one of the inflections with which the discursivization of the disease is manifested. The hypothesis in this work holds that the narration of the disease leads us to read the construction of an inaugural myth: this myth articulates fever, childhood and reading under the figure of the sick child as elements that synthesize the beginning of a pathological imagination. This type of imagination makes feverish symptoms a fertile area for the production of fiction and tells us a reader origin. On the one hand, this origin myth relates an approach to reading conditioned by the disease, and, on the other hand, makes visible a metapoetic element of Millás’ novels that shows the materiality with which he constructs his narrative universe. In this way, the article traces a journey through the relationships between illness and literature, and childhood and feverish reading, to elucidate the appropriations with which in this novel Millás turns a common topic into an area of fictional productivity.
publisher Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades
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