This text focuses on the specific dependence on the mother role which the childless woman in Julio Cortázar’s short story “The Condemned Door” warms to. The present work studies “fictional motherhood” and some of the possible explanations of the special double “play” of comforting the unborn son that exists both in the mind of the woman and in the mind of her neighboring man who seems to verify the child’s existence. This is a story of an obsession with what has no body, but exists in the form of a thought, a desire, and consciousness. The narrative tells how the dependence of the other reveals a need you may well feel too.
“THE CONDEMNED DOOR” BY JULIO CORTÁZAR: DEPENDENCE ON THE MOTHER ROLE
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- NAME: Vanya Georgieva Georgieva
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INSTITUTIONPaisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv
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COUNTRYBulgaria
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Vanya Georgieva Georgieva has a master degree in anthropology and philology (“St. Kliment Ohridski“ University of Sofia, 2010) and a PhD degree in philology (“Paisii Hilendarski” University of Plovdiv, 2015). He worked as a chief assistant in “Bulgarian literature (1878 – 1918)” at “Paisii Hilendarski” University of Plovdiv. She is the author of the book "Ekaterina Karavelova – Lora Karavelova: the cultural-historical plot “mothers – daughters” in the Bulgarian context” (2017), also has authored several studies and articles in research periodical issues and various miscellanies. Her interests are in the field of the history of Bulgarian literature, feminist theory in modern humanities, biographical reconstruction.
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