Atopías de ficción: el tratamiento del exilio en la narrativa breve de Cristina Peri Rossi

NÚRIA CALAFELL SALA

Encuentro; Coloquio ?Tiempo y Espacio?; 2008

In 1973 Uruguay, following the path of some southamerican countries of the period, starts its particular way through a dictatorship that will last until 1985 carrying, among many other consequences, the exodus of almost all its intellectual class. Cristina Peri Rossi (Montevideo, 1941) will not be an exception: soon after the strike to the government, which ends with the mentioned dictatorship, the writer moves to Barcleona and writes her first book of tales, La tarde del dinosaurio (1976), where the subject of the exile takes place through the stare of a child that gets to feel the moment of dissolution. As the writer explained in an interview: "[?] exile has been a mandatory reflexion about the other, other time and other space [...]. I felt as if I had travelled through space and in doing so, I travelled thorugh time as well". In this other time-space coordenate, unusual and atemporal, this comunication pretends to enter in the subtle yet persistent interrelation between the traumatic living of Cristina Peri Rossi and its representation in a series of texts that turn and experiment around it, either melting borders, mixing coordenates or building new realities.