Towards a poetic of Soledad Farina. Prototext and encrypted writing in the voice of the earth

Abstract

This paper examines the mythogenesic character of the story "Al alba" from the book Otro cuento de pájaros (Santiago: Las Dos Fridas, 1999) by Soledad Fariña, seen as a prototext and a paralel to the "writing" of the Book that in a fragmentary way -under the constant questioning of the means of representation and the perceptive capacity to be found in this poem- is realized in the trilogy entitled La vocal de la tierra (Santiago: Cuarto Propio, 1999), a book that includes the collections of poems El Primer Libro (Santiago: Amaranto, 1985), Albricia (Santiago: Archivo, 1988) and En amarillo oscuro (Santiago: Surada, 1994); the trilogy thus becomes a new Holy Scripture -an alternative to the judeo-christian and patriarchal Book- which can be identifi ed with the prehispanic culture and is focused in the female gender that constitutes the subject in a protolesbic relation with the Mother, as an offering to the iniciating Goddess, and as a member of the couple of Amazon lovers.