Two lives in one diary: Rosa Montero’s La ridícula idea de no volver a verte (2013)
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Rosa Montero, Marie Curie, Writing, Biopoetics, MourningAbstract
The main theme of this article is the analysis of Rosa Montero's La ridícula idea de no volver a verte (2013), according to the theoretical framework of Biopoetics. Thanks to the reading of the intimate diary that the scientist Marie Curie writes after the death of Pierre Curie, Montero reaches the verbalization of her own mourning for the loss of her husband Pablo. Throughout the study it can be seen how, through Curie's bíos, Montero manages to experiment the healing power of the written word.
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