The Reverse of the Soul of Carla Guelfenbein: a “Corporal Narrative” Written by Female Characters

Abstract

This article will aim to examine the consciousness process of Biruté Ciplijauskaité taking as object of study The Reverse of the Soul (2003) written by Carla Guelfenbein. The work tries to address the following question, among others: Can memory be an instrument to overcome a trauma? Firstly, it aims to analyse the female body and, subsequently, focus specifically on the memory and the trauma. Secondly, the idea is to ascribe what we call “corporal narrative”, a form of writing which the body is the centre.

Keywords

• Carla Guelfenbein, cuerpo, trauma, memoria, “narrativa de lo corporal”