Universos femeninos de fragilidad, desarraigo y soledad en la narrativa de Sara Mesa

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2025

Authors

Fernández dos Santos, Mirta (Author) FLUP; Severino, Isa Margarida Vitória (Author) Other

Book

Title: Solidão, soledade, solitude, sozinhice: os sinais da literatura

Pages: 129-141

Electronic ISBN: 978-989-8970-96-1

Publisher: CITCEM / FLUP

Scientific classification

CORDIS: Social sciences > Sociology

Other information

Resumo (PT): ES: En este artículo se propone una reflexión sobre el complejo, profundo y a veces contradictorio tema de las causas y consecuencias del (auto)aislamiento a través del análisis de dos libros de la autora madrileña Sara Mesa (Madrid, 1976), que se ha convertido en un referente insoslayable de la narrativa española contemporánea. Se trata de las novelas Cicatriz (2015) y Un amor (2020), cuyas tramas inciden obsesivamente sobre la temática de la soledad, aunque esta sea desencadenada por coyunturas y razones diversas. Así pues, partiendo del deslumbramiento producido por la voz inquieta e inquietante de Sara Mesa, hábil artífice de perfiles psicológicos insólitos y desconcertantes, con este trabajo pretendemos contribuir a ahondar críticamente en la novelística de la autora, si bien somos conscientes de que teorizar sobre la obra de una escritora joven, en pleno auge de su trayectoria literaria, implica transitar casi a ciegas un territorio inexplorado, pero, precisamente por ello, repleto de posibilidades.

Abstract (EN): This paper proposes a reflection on the complex, profound, and sometimes contradictory issue of the causes and consequences of (self)isolation through the analysis of two books by the Madrid-born author Sara Mesa (Madrid, 1976), who has become an essential reference in contemporary Spanish narrative. Both novels are Cicatriz (2015) and Un amor (2020), whose plots obsessively focus on the theme of loneliness, even if this is triggered by various circumstances and reasons. Thus, starting from the dazzlement produced by the restless and disturbing voice of Sara Mesa, a skilled creator of unusual and disconcerting psychological profiles, with this work we intend to contribute to a critical delve into the author’s novels, although we are aware that theorizing about the work of a young writer, at the height of her literary career, implies almost blindly transiting an unexplored territory, but, precisely for that reason, full of possibilities.

Language: Spanish

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 12