Interview with Laura Alcoba: "Para qué sirven las historias"

Authors

  • Natalia Lorena Ferreri Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (IDH-CIFFyH). https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-9462
  • Francisco Aiello Celehis, INHUS-UNMdP y CONICET.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/HYBRIDA.5(12/2022).25584

Keywords:

Laura Alcoba, Par la fôret, novela contemporánea, memoria, traducción

Abstract

Par la forêt is the latest novel by Laura Alcoba (La Plata, 1968), published by Gallimard in January this year. In it, the author tells in French a story that borders on the unspeakable: a double infanticide, several suicide attempts and the experience of exile. Griselda, mother of three, kills her two youngest children. Flavia, the eldest daughter, survives not only the early death, but also the silence that, for years, shrouds the events that cannot be explained in words. In Par la forêt, a first-person narrator who meets the protagonists of this story, listens to them, takes notes and writes, brings together in a later time the words that perhaps could not be said before.



In this interview, which took place at the café Le progrés in Paris in July 2022, Laura Alcoba shares the intimately human and writerly experience of creating Par la forêt. From this novel, in retrospect, Alcoba retraces her novelistic writing, reveals her link with translation and the mother tongue, and offers a look at what to tell, what stories are for.

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Natalia Lorena Ferreri, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (IDH-CIFFyH).

Natalia L. Ferreri es Doctora en Letras (FFyH-UNC), Profesora Titular en la cátedra de Literatura de habla francesa, Escuela de Letras (FFyH). Sus investigaciones sobre literatura extremo contemporánea en lengua francesa están radicadas en CIFAL y en CIFFyH-IDH, ambos centros pertenecientes a la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.

Francisco Aiello, Celehis, INHUS-UNMdP y CONICET.

Francisco Aiello es Doctor en Letras, docente del Departamento de Letras (Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata) e Investigador Adjunto de CONICET, Argentina.

References

Alcoba, L. (2022). Par la forêt. Gallimard.

Kamenszain, T. (2016). Una intimidad inofensiva. Los que escriben con lo que hay. Eterna Cadencia.

Published

2022-12-27

How to Cite

Ferreri, N. L., & Aiello, F. (2022). Interview with Laura Alcoba: "Para qué sirven las historias". HYBRIDA, (5(12/2022), 186–202. https://doi.org/10.7203/HYBRIDA.5(12/2022).25584
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