A wild body’s confessions. Flavia Company’s Dame placer Authors Eva Gutiérrez Universitat Rovira i Virgili Keywords: contemporary Spanish narrative, Flavia Company, pleasure, body and language, epistolary literary tradition, lesbianism, sadomasochism, obsession, mixed literary genres Abstract The purpose of this article is to analyse Dame placer (1999), written by Flavia Company. It is a confessional novel where a love relationship is de-constructed and re-constructed. Through elements that go beyond the obvious transgression (lesbiannism, sadomasochism), this love relationship establishes a relationship in equality, whose last aim is the absolute possession of the loved one. I establish a possible relation between Dame placer and other works of this author, which have either the same plot (“Diamantes podridos” in Género de punto) or the same character (Fuga y contrapuntos, La mitad sombría) or the same obsession (Luz de hielo, Círculos en acíbar). I analyse the supporting role in Dame placer (a so-called psychoanalyst) as a means the author uses to achieve three objectives: showing that reality cannot be accessed (or should not be accessed) from only one point of view; connecting the character and the reader, and fusing novelistic and theatre genres. I also comment on the connection between Dame placer and the epistolary genre (the heroides). Downloads PDF (Català) PDF (Español) Issue No. 14 (2008): Maternitat a l'islam Section Miscellaneous License The Author retains ownership of the copyright in this article, unless the opposite is expressed, and all rights not expressly granted in this agreement, including the nonexclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the article in print or electronic form, and grants, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat the exclusive rights to print publication of the Article for a period beginning when this Agreement is executed and ending twelve (12) months after the first publicaton of the work in this Journal. After this time, the work will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, by which the article must be credited to the Author and the Journal be credited as first place of publication. Beginning twelve (12) months after the article´s first publication, the Author is free to enter in seperate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work as published in this journal. The Author is encouraged to post the work online (eg in institutional or subject repositories, or on their website) after the exclusivity period of twelve (12) months has expired, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as a greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
