“Una experiencia menos uno”. Restoring Benjamin’s Notion of Experience in Valeria Luiselli’s Narrative

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https://doi.org/10.1344/452f.2024.31.16

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Valeria Luiselli, Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, Experience

Abstract

This article is a reflection on the reception and incorporation of Walter Benjamin's idea of experience in two works by Valeria Luiselli: Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions (Los niños perdidos) and Lost Children Archive (Desierto sonoro). After a brief panoramic overview of the link between philosophy and language in the author's work through the Deleuze-Benjamin correlation, it offers a re-reading of her recent narrative work to show how her incorporation of the idea of experience comes together to form a defense of collage, pastiche, and fragmentation as mechanisms for the recovery of memory.

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2024-07-30

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Garí Barceló, B. (2024). “Una experiencia menos uno”. Restoring Benjamin’s Notion of Experience in Valeria Luiselli’s Narrative. 452ºF. Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (31), 279–296. https://doi.org/10.1344/452f.2024.31.16

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No. 31 (2024): New Realisms in Spanish Literature and Cinema since 2008

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Miscellaneous

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