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‘El amor también es ciego’: Lo sensible en Sangre en el ojo de Lina Meruane
Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Romance Studies and Classics.
2020 (Spanish)In: Bulletin of Hispanic studies (Liverpool. 2002), ISSN 1475-3839, E-ISSN 1478-3398, Vol. 97, no 4, p. 403-420Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

An incapacity to love, both psychological and social, characterizes the novels and short stories written by the Chilean ‘generation of the children’. This article focuses on the novel Sangre en el ojo (2012) in order to examine how Lina Meruane, one of the most notable voices of this generation, represents this incapacity, and, at the same time, searches for remedies by emphasizing the realm of the sensitive. The article analyses Sangre en el ojo first as a romantic novel. A detailed study of the relationship between love and blindness, on which Meruane constructs her novel, reveals that the author writes against a metaphorization of blindness and a disembodiment of love. As such, the article proposes a reading of Sangre en el ojo as a novel of resistance against current social, economic and sentimental norms and argues that attention to the sensitive can be considered a defining element of the generation that grew up during the dictatorship.

Abstract [es]

Las novelas y los cuentos de la ‘generación de los hijos’ chilena dejan entrever una incapacidad de amar que se manifiesta tanto a nivel psicológico como social. El presente artículo se centra en la novela Sangre en el ojo (2012) para examinar cómo Lina Meruane, una de las voces más llamativas de esa generación, tematiza esta incapacidad y explora maneras de remediarla a través de un énfasis en lo sensible. Se analiza Sangre en el ojo primero como una novela de amor anclada en la tradición gótica. Un estudio pormenorizado de las relaciones entre el amor y la ceguera sobre las cuales se construye la novela muestra que Meruane escribe en contra de las tendencias de metaforizar la ceguera y descorporalizar el amor. A partir de allí, se propone una lectura de Sangre en el ojo como novela resistente contra las normas sociales, económicas y sentimentales de hoy y se argumenta que la atención por lo sensible puede considerarse como un elemento definitorio de la generación que creció durante la dictadura.

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2020. Vol. 97, no 4, p. 403-420
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-181007DOI: 10.3828/bhs.2020.23ISI: 000541158500005OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-181007DiVA, id: diva2:1426120
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Titel på engelska:

'Love is blind too': The sensitivity in Blood in the eye by Lina Meruane

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