El título "Deseos" en la obra de Marina Mayoral

The human communication process is characterized by the set of rational activities that are carried out and that allow us to not only get information from the environment through perception but to infer new knowledge from already acquired. According to Relevance Theory, from the time we receive a linguistic ostensive stimulus, the recipient's mind starts automatically dierent types of processes, starting with the most mechanical decoding (grammatical process) and followed by other inferential nature, since the disambiguation and assignment relating to the identication of the sender's intention (pragmatic process): understanding a sentence or a text depends not only on the meaning of their surface structure but its inner meaning, of what implicit, in short. Similarly, when we read a novel, see a lm or contemplate an event, according to Cognitive Principle of Relevance (PCR), the human mind maximizes relevance, ie in the overall process of understanding, select those items most relevant, those who follow the path of least resistance, and that summarize the event, the movie or the play. Based, as we say, in the innate ability that every human being has to draw inferences, inferring meanings and select the most relevant information, we will discuss the title of the latest novel by Marina Mayoral, wishes to see, after reading the book, whether or not it meets the expectations we had wrought.

Prefacio

Este volumen está formado por seis artículos. El primero de ellos es el de la propia autora, la Dra. Marina Mayoral, que nos agasaja explicándonos cómo ha concebido "La construcción de Deseos". A este primer artículo, interesantísimo, le sigue un trabajo de M. José Rodríguez Campillo en el que se analiza "El título Deseos en la obra de Marina Mayoral". A continuación, Anna Corts Curto se ocupa del análisis del "Universo íntimo de Marina Mayoral: Brétema". El cuarto artículo, de Christian Snoey, presenta un minucioso estudio sobre "Tiempo y tiempos en Deseos". "La Figura de Constanza en Deseos" es analizada por María Anguera y Marina Silva. Cierra el volumen una "Breve aproximación a la figura de Lilith en Deseos", a cargo de Abel Moreno.

El universo íntimo de Marina Mayoral: Brétema

Painting scenarios where to place characters with their stories is one of the most complex tasks in characterizing the space of a literary work. Most authors change space each time they start a new novel. In the case of Marina Mayoral, we found a room of her own, a closed universe that has its well-defined contours. In Mayoral, the central space of each work is directly related to a term: Brétema. In this paper, we will try to draw contours in an amazing world that takes its name in La única libertad (Mayoral 1982) and that links all her works.

Tiempo y tiempos en "Deseos"

Time has always been a field full of experimental innovations during the 20th century, and Deseos, by Marina Mayoral, is not alien to that. This novel contains a double analysis of time: On one hand from a philosophical point of view, fiction gets divided on many occasions in two dierent parts: the chronological time of the clock and the psychological or lived time, which ts with the personal experience of time. On the other hand, from a technical perspective, the way time builds the structure of the text will be studied, and also the different kinds of flashbacks that allow characters' soliloquies. Finally, implicit and explicit time indicators that guide time's becoming will also be object of study.

Breve aproximación a la figura de Lilith en "Deseos"

In this paper, by analysing the novel Deseos by Marina Mayoral, we aim to address the dificulty that modern women suffer regarding her personal liberation as an active subject against the generic domain imposed by males. Her alienation, as an exercise supported by the beliefs of the ancient Mesopotamia, has given rise to the femme fatale, a reversal of utopian characteristics in different Western societies founded by the biblical patriarchy. Lilith's image, enhanced by the nineteenth century art by the Pre-Raphaelites, will be decisive in the process of sexual recognition that will lead the study of aspects such as the protest, uprooting, punishment and revenge.

La paloma de Rafael Alberti como eslabón de esperanza en Metamorfosis de un clavel

Marina Mayoral (1985), en un intento de desentrañar el posible significado de este poema, construye un entramado de «errores totales» (la confusión entre el norte y el sur...) y «errores parciales» (la creencia de que el trigo es el agua...) para concluir que la paloma se- ría el poeta que plasma así –sobre todo en las dos últimas estrofas– la propia concientización de sus equívocos. Entonces, no sólo puede equivocarse la paloma, sino que, además, el hombre «puede darse cuenta de que se ha equivocado, de que un error puede ser a un tiempo total y parcial, de que lo que no debe suceder, sucede» (Mayoral, 1985: 349–350), y, por ende, surgir la destrucción del instinto del animal. Así, el constante yerro de la palo- ma del fragmento se aprecia como la manifestación poética de un cúmulo de errores (parciales y totales), y, para más inri, la tragedia de la destrucción del instinto humano.