SCRIPTURAL RESPONSIBILITY: LOS NINOS PERDIDOS BY VALERIA LUISELLI AS A COUNTER-ARCHIVE

This article proposes a reading of Los ninos perdidos (2016) [Tell me how it ends (2016 y 2017)], by Valeria Luiselli, in relation to the ethical and political commitment of writing. It analyzes the construction of this peculiar mestizo genre text, articulated in-between autobiography, essay and chronicle, as a parasitic counter-archive, supported by a place of affected and affective enunciation-the body of the author- which, as a relational interface, crosses and vertebrates it. The article is structured as a transit or passage itself, until it leads to the scriptural responsibility and the authorial position (which implies putting the body of Luiselli): both questions are thematized in this singular literary artifact, which in some way meant the prelude to the acclaimed later novel, Desierto sonoro (2019) [Lost Child Archive (2019)].