Esa soy yo: un recorrido por la intimidad en Teoría de la gravedad de Leila Guerriero

Abstract

Contrary to the 19th century’s modernist chronicles – such as Ruben Darios s or José Martí s– in which the “self” of the subject was defended (Rotker, 1992), in Leila Guerriero s narrative journalism, the subjectivity is expressed by the ways of telling chosen by her; i.e., in each process that form her writing practice, more than what is grammatically expressed.\xa0In Teoría de la gravedad\xa0(2018), the speech is codified through a particularly poetic use of the language. In these self-referential–chronicles (or profile-short story), the author recalls her childhood, her youth and her writing days from a perspective that intends to question her own privacy, through a precise dynamic of “looking” and “telling”. She represents herself in the narrative space as a limit-subject (at times, blurred) between a subjective interior and a tellable exterior, with the final purpose of finding another writing-place that can shelter her in the process of\xa0becoming\xa0more than in that of\xa0being.