Necrophagy, abjection, taboo and death of the genius: a reading hypothesis of “Carne”, by Mariana Enríquez
Abstract
In her short story “Carne”, Mariana Enríquez works with one of the best stablished taboos of our culture: necrophagy. This article intends to show how the traditional immunity of the death, along with the interdiction of consuming human flesh, are conquered and subverted. From all of the above, we infer that the notion of horror is linked to the notions of abjection, ritual and taboo (in this case, the taboo imposed to swallowing and contact with what is death). These notions are of special interest in the works of Enríquez. To sum up, human body is regarded as an object to be consumed; the idol of masses is conceived as a public property
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