The Precipice of a Genius. Failure and Survival in Memorias prematuras by Rafael Gumucio

Abstract

Geniality, in a self writing that combines life and fiction, allows Rafael Gumucio lives with death and with the idea that all life figures itself as a demolition process. Gumucio writes his premature memories without the maturity to forgive, he is guided by  the perception of failure. In self writings (specificly autofiction) and in the tension between memory and souvenir, this work develops this hypothesis: the act of remembering produces a time ripping in the writing of his own life, dislocates the narrator of Memorias prematuras and guides him towards failure. In this process, the narrator figures himself as a “loser”, as a victim of the passing time, as a survivor of the desbarrancadero of his own life.