El nombre propio como modulador de vínculos sexo-afectivos y genealógicos en las novelas de Armonía Somers: una poética de la suplementariedad nominal

Abstract

This article explore the potential of the proper name as a contingent identity modulator in the Uruguayan author Armonia Somers’ novels, and, specifically, of  nominal supplementarity  (the act of twisting, overprinting, displacing or substituting sometimes momentarily the "original" or "legal" name of the characters for another(s), as a form of nominal drift). This operation is presented as a producer of subjective transformations of the characters, as verified in certain areas of Latin American literary discourse in the 20th century. Among these are three novels by Somers:  The naked woman  (1950),  Solo los elefantes encuentran mandragora  (1986) and  Viaje al corazon del dia: elegia por un secreto amor  (1986), which participate in this nominal poetics. In these texts, the nominal displacements cause the reconfiguration or even an inauguration of new forms of relationship between the characters. So the use of this thematic, structural, and subjective resource exceeds the mere change of nomenclature and reveals itself as a pole of subjective and intersubjective production.