To want to say the darkness: the film noir as subtext of "Novela negra con argentines" by Luisa Valenzuela

Abstract

This paper proposes a reading of Luisa Valenzuela’s Novela negra con argentinos that illustrates the importance of the moving image at the relationship between writing and Secret, which defines this author’s literary work. And more specifically, it explores the film noir’s trace on the text in the course of this novel, on her plot but mostly on the aesthetic solutions adopted by Valenzuela: literary tricks to fictionalize the “black light” of which Jacques Derrida speaks and, on this way, to tell the Secret, not to reveal it.