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RIOS BAEZA, Felipe A.. A hospitable novel: La cresta de Ilión, by Cristina Rivera Garza. Valenciana [online]. 2019, vol.12, n.24, pp.95-117.  Epub 20-Sep-2019. ISSN 2007-2538.  https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i24.444.

Starting from the concept of hospitality, proposed by French philosopher Jacques Derrida, this essay tries to define the most significant features of La cresta de Ilión (Tusquets, 2002), by Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza; a novel that was recently re-edited (Random house, 2018) and that has become a fundamental piece of her narrative, because it will irradiate many singular affairs to her subsequent works. If in Nadie me verá llorar (1999), which is Rivera Garza’s first novel, most of the actions happened in a “hospital/hospitality” environment, La cresta de Ilión seems to have some continuity, at least in the spaces where the action takes place and the overwhelmed masculine characters, but the performative effect over Rivera Garza’s prose is completely transformed. Therefore, in agreement and at the same time disagreement with previous critics of this novel, this essay will study the way in which a literary space receives, in a problematic way, traces of other rhetoric, thinking this procedure more deconstructive than intertextual, because this model seems insufficient to determine the articulated novels like this one.

Palabras llave : Cristina Rivera Garza; Hospitality; Performativity; Deconstruction; Gender.

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