“Una experiencia menos uno”. Restoring Benjamin’s Notion of Experience in Valeria Luiselli’s Narrative

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Bernat Garí Barceló

This article is a reflection on the reception and incorporation of Walter Benjamin's idea of experience in two works by Valeria Luiselli: Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions (Los niños perdidos) and Lost Children Archive (Desierto sonoro). After a brief panoramic overview of the link between philosophy and language in the author's work through the Deleuze-Benjamin correlation, it offers a re-reading of her recent narrative work to show how her incorporation of the idea of experience comes together to form a defense of collage, pastiche, and fragmentation as mechanisms for the recovery of memory.

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Valeria Luiselli, Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, Experience

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Garí Barceló, Bernat. “‘Una experiencia menos uno’. Restoring Benjamin’s Notion of Experience in Valeria Luiselli’s Narrative”. 452ºF: revista de teoría de la literatura y literatura comparada, no. 31, pp. 279-96, doi:10.1344/452f.2024.31.16.