Deceptions and discoveries in Nada a dizer, by Elvira Vigna

Abstract

Based on the concepts of autobiographical writing, especially those of Philippe Lejeune (2008) and Manon Auger (2006), this article proposes an analysis of the novel Nada a dizer (2010), by Elvira Vigna, as a fictional diary. In this novel, Vigna gives voice to a woman betrayed by her husband after years of marriage. The narrator exposes the process of discovery in a chronological order, using a series of traces of writing in act proper to the diary. This fictional author finds in writing a way of organizing the reality and the emotional, the relationship with the other and with herself, in a dynamic between narrating oneself and narrating the other in the face of impasses of the marital relationship regarding the formation of an identity.