Farabeuf: Writing the body

Abstract

The paper deals with the novel Farabeuf o la crónica de un instante, by the mexican writer Salvador Elizondo, as a tentative to write the body or from the body. The eccentric structure of the text would be an expression of this tentative to subvert cultural categories that determine the narrative gender as depending on Subjectivity (narrator, characters, conscience flow, etc.), now replaced with an exploration of semiotical possibilities of human materiality.