La scrittura della trasgressione nei racconti di Silvina Ocampo

The short stories of Silvina Ocampo are organized around the refusal of one single reality. The work of the Argentine author opposes certainties, in a game of an apparently obstinate assertion of the rules of living together. In a game of juxtapositions and subreptitious inversions, each confirmation of the norm and of normality is countered by a greater corruption of reality and of those same laws which seem to support the narrated worlds.\r\nLanguage proposes itself as a space for experimentation in which verbal tics, metaphors of use, and the most remote lexical acceptations, become uncontrollable furies, uncontainable abysses of perception into which the “innocence” of the hierarchically weak characters plunges: the children, the women, the sick, the idiots. These “things” degraded by a lost or negated functionality make up scenes of desolation in which the subjects of Ocampo’s fiction move with difficulty. In the decades of her literary production, Silvina Ocampo’s stories seem to trace an inexorable, obstructed, fragmentary and fragmented trajectory towards the recognition and possession of a subjectivity which does not precede the texts, but rather originates in them.