Espacios de intimidad en La voz dormida: La configuración del espacio y su efecto en la lectura

Abstract

The aim of this essay is to study the configuration of the literary space of intimacy and its effect on the act of reading, in the novel The Sleeping Voice of Dulce Chacón. In order to accomplish this, textual strategies, that are used in three chosen scenes of the first part of the novel, are analysed and it is also exposed how and in which measure these strategies involve the reader in the individual experience of certain characters. Thus, the study reveals that the novels creates a space of intimacy through the polydimensional aspect of the space carried by the literary language. It also reveals that this configuration, by means of the textual strategies, involves the reader to feel and empathize with the character. The text, thanks to its words and their disposition as well as the narratives techniques, opens a space of intimacy of certain characters inviting the reader to experience the intimacy.