Description

“I, Olga Orozco, from your heart, say to everyone that I am dying” : with that foundational verse, the poet Olga Orozco multiplied her name and her voice in numerous subjective narratives. Her “doubling into a mask of everyone” began in the ritual voice, a participant in the divine, and culminated in a critique of the sacred word, which not only acknowledges her own mortality but also questions the patriarchal God in alliance with the voices of other women. The “voice of Olga” is ever-changing and diverse: it is found in her poems and narratives, in the apocryphal characters of her journalistic pieces, in her self-portraits and interviews, in the testimonies of those who have not forgotten her “hoarse and weeping voice.” That voice, which says “I am you, he is you, they are us,” transitive and plural, still speaks to us.

This book is part of the Notebooks Collection , an initiative of Malba Literatura to disseminate its rich archive of courses and seminars taught by leading academics and writers. The editing of each volume in this collection has allowed the authors to revisit the topics covered and add supplementary materials, striving to maintain the warmth and spontaneity of the lectures that inspired them.
The voice of Olga Orozco compiles the classes that Jorge Monteleone taught at the Malba in 2020, on the centenary of the birth of the Argentine poet.

Author
Jorge Monteleone

Technical specifications
Published by: Malba
Year: 2021
Type: Book
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 23 x 16.5 cm
Weight: 534 gr
Spanish
Pages: 320
ISBN: 978-987-47588-8-0