Poetics of the biographical disintegration and concealment in Fred Cabeza de Vaca by Vicente Luis Mora

Abstract

Through the confluence of writing and theory, through the assembly between aesthetic pleasure and textual epistemology and through a deliberate discursive and fragmentary discontinuity, Fred Cabeza de Vaca is a work committed to literature as an instrument of knowledge of contemporaneity and dystopian inquiry. Fragmentation is the narratological structure through which the writer approaches the dissolution of the Cartesian self and the unknowability of what is real and it becomes a means of expressing the poetics of concealment.

Keywords

• biographical fallacy
• biographem
• fragmentary aesthetic
• fred cabeza de vaca
• vicente luis mora