The Impossible Inheritance
Keywords:
Remain(der), biodegradability, mourning, archive, writing
Abstract
Based on a combined reading of Roberto Bolaño’s novel 2666 and Derrida’s Glas, this paper aims at sketching the conditions of inheritance and the work of mourning from their inner edges, the remains and the archive. For this purpose, this paper sets out on a cartographic journey across the difficult reception of Glas, oscillating undecidibly between biodegradability and inassimilable resistance. This impossible cartography of a book, which is also the inassimilable remainder of which it makes the theme, allows for inscribing the text as a space of mourning, and as another figure of mourning beyond the work.Downloads
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Blanco Vázquez B. (2012). The Impossible Inheritance. Escritura e Imagen, Extra, 57-73. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ESIM.2011.37678
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