Transits and Corridors: Maria Rosa Lojo's Library in Solo queda saltar (2018)

Abstract

The Argentine writer Maria Rosa Lojo is an author of a diversified works. In the literary area includes poems, collections of stories and several novels. In the literary critical essays, she also produced important works, including books and varied articles, about culture and argentine literature. Since the publication of her first book in 1984, she has been occupying a prominent place in the Argentine letters. In the long list of his fictional works, the narratives almost always are made in the blurred boundaries between history and fiction, which in general address historical and identity issues associated with transits and borders. When the limits of the traditional genres are erased, with the mixture of various types of discourse, dialogues between the various modalities of fictional and historical narratives are frequent. The present work, based on the mapping of the fictional works of Maria Rosa Lojo, discusses how these works transit in the texture of her latest novel, Solo queda saltar (2018) and how the intertextual dialogue that takes place reiterates the presence of usual themes and forms in his work.