Sara Mesa in the Labyrinth of the Kafkaesque: A Comparative Reading
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This article offers a reading of Sara Mesa's complete works in light of the Kafkaesque. Despite their aesthetic differences, Mesa and Kafka share an interest in the way power is exercised over the individual in different contexts such as the family or public administration. In this sense, Mesa's narrative chronicle Silencio Administrativo is the text that most openly embraces the Kafkaesque. An attention to animality and the grotesque as well as the inclusion of the perspective of characters who are anomalous, uprooted, and judged also link these two authors, each of whom understands literature as a search for truth, without concessions to the reader.
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