The feeling of self in La hija única de Guadalupe Nettel

Abstract

This essay project the figure of the female body as the main motif in La hija única, the most recent novel by Guadalupe Nettel. The body has been the motif that continues and has been present in all the plots of his narrative from different angles and circumstances. Nettel postulates the iconic and sensitive sense of the body figure as the aesthetic and cultural resource that generates and defines the importance of its image in the creative act. What is new in La hija única is to consider from the beginning the vicissitudes of one's own body, its discovery, and enigmas since its gestation and what would be the responsibilities acquired from being a mother. The only daughter redefines the female figure in its intimacy and estrangement, as well as offering us the opportunity to read and look at Guadalupe Nettel in the introspection of being a writer and mother.