El tema del represor en El lugar perdido de Norma Huidobro

Abstract

The way the theme of the oppressor is inscribed inEl lugar perdidoby the Argentinian Norma Huidobro is analized based on Angenot´s social discourse theory. It is argued that the social discourse about the oppressor entersEl lugar perdidoby the discourse of gender. The way in which the discourse of gender is absorbed by the novel and inscribed in it functions as a possible way to humanize the figure of the repressor and, ultimately, as an attempt to understand it in a different way than other social discourses, even aesthetic ones, have done until now.