O fio do mínimo ou "Zapatos: andante com cariaciones" de Margo Glantz

• Published in: Remate de Males Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 207 - 218
• Main Author: Kanzepolsky, Adriana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Estadual de Campinas 13.11.2012
• Subjects: Teoria Literária. Crítica literária
• DOI: 10.20396/remate.v27i2.8636005
• ISSN: 0103-183X

O fio do mínimo ou “Zapatos: andante con variaciones” de Margo GlantzThis work construes Margo Glantz’ “Zapatos: andante con variaciones” as a text that from the fiction point of view reworks, at the same time displacing and distorting, some nucleic ideas taken from Las genealogías. Our starting hypothesis is that this text (central in the series of texts in Historia de una mujer que caminó por la vida con zapatos de diseñador) does not fictionalise an “original” but a textual original; because of this we think its protagonist (Nora García) as an “imperfect translation” of this Margo Glantz who presents herself as the narrator and character of the parental memories.We question how you construct an autobiography when you already had been a character in your parent’s biography; with this is mind we read the change of status that some events experience from one text to the other; the transformation of the insignificant into central and the central into insignificant. We focused our attention on Nora García/Margo Glantz relation with the universe of shoes. This relation seen as a familial memory mark, personal passion, a garment that defines the subject; and above all as that object which obliquely lets the author to recover in the fictional space the maternal memory (obscured in the Las genealogías by the figure of Jacobo Glantz, her father.