Les Cahiers ALHIM (Jun 2024)
El discurso amoroso de Luz Acmé, alter ego de María Jesús Alvarado, y la búsqueda del marido ideal
Abstract
In the first and only novel she published, Nuevas Cumbres (1923), María Jesús Alvarado recounts the founding of Ciudad Cumbre, a model colony of the ideal society that its creator, Luz Acmé, installed “en las selvas ubérrimas de Oriente” and in which is inhabited by 10,000 settlers. But the central theme of the novel is the narration of the search for the perfect partner – the husband, the partner, the friend – to whom, due to his merits, Luz Acmé will grant the role of co-founder. The succession of the suitors, aspiring to be part of the founding couple, and the reasons why they are rejected – except for the last one – make up a discourse on love that I make dialogue, in the present work, with the Fragments of the love speech, by Roland Barthes. I am interested in highlighting how the woman, a love object in Barthes' Fragments, acquires voice and agency in Luz Acmé's speech.
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