This essay examines female agency and deviance in two key scenes of La segunda Celestina as an act of monstrosity, a term that figures in this context as a transgression of gender codes. One of the three main female characters, Beatriz, is identified by her proclivity to hunt and her aversion to marry. While this may not be a new concept in comedia studies, the correlation between such an attitude and manifestations of monstrosity opens up the text to a reading that includes, but also transcends, the debate of authorial collaboration that has surrounded this text for a decade and a half. Through key discourses and descriptions, Beatriz exemplifies when monsters tend to emerge, how they are identified, and why soon thereafter they must be eliminated. Most importantly, Beatriz's actions demonstrate the modes by which monsters threaten social order. (BLG)
Eliécer Almaguer (Holguín, 1982) y yo nos encontramos para editar esta entrevista en un Starbucks que está a la mitad de camino entre nuestras casas; como buen cubano, le gusta el café y la conversación. Acude puntualmente a la cita, en realidad ha llegado minutos antes que yo, en una ocasión me dijo que practicaba una puntualidad inglesa, "algo raro en los cubanos", confesó mientras sonreía. Agradezco en esta breve introducción a Eliécer o Cheché, el niño personaje de su novela y que, de acuerdo con la crítica, y confirmado por el propio autor, es el alter ego de su infancia.Constituye un privilegio entrevistarlo con motivos de su primera novela, ópera prima que ha hecho entrar a Eliécer con buenos pies en el mundo de la narrativa, pues su nueva obra El torso de vinilo, acaba de salir a la luz por la editorial española Verbum.
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