A deliberate inclination to read out of place: Sylvia Molloy and Norah Lange's Cuadernos de infancia
Abstract
Critical Sylvia Molloy concerns are echoed in his literary fiction. It is possible to expect that both, her essays and fictions, can hardly be considered separate from one another. His book Acto de presencia. La escritura autobiográfica en Hispanoamérica (1996), where she studied Spanish- American autobiographies, is an example of this as it reveals a curious reading system: on one side it reveals the way of interpretation of autobiography –her own way, one who reads the autobiographical text as a fiction. On the other side to unsettle the autobiographical text and move it from the usual readings, Molloy let slip her concerns about her own fiction. Thus, reading the autobiography of Norah Lange Cuadernos de infancia (1937) becomes a kind of laboratory from which Molloy reflects surreptitiously about the reception that she wishes for his novel En breve cárcel (1981), when she republishes it in 1998.
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