The female interval about the Diabulus in musica of Espido Freire

Abstract

Espido Freire’s work usually focuses on female sex, but it is not a reason enough to qualify her narrative as “feminine”. Embeded in “me myself” of each of her female characters, she subjected them to a personal and social conflicts —as imposition of male-symbols—, in order to make them show their unstable identities. The Basque female author has done a reinterpretation of Western women’s past to identify her as a subject (individual), but not only as an object. The narrative idea is presented as an inward struggle which trigger is the love and reveal the range of the difference. Even though Diabulus in Musica could be added to the oneiric’s world, we have traced certain features called “feminolectos” in order to deal exclusively with the behavior of her heroines in that concept called women’s literature.