摘要

The multiple references to writing in Pedro Almodovar*s La flor de mi secreto (1995) have arguably made this film his most literary. Reading and writing function as the structural axis of the movie because they define the existence of the main character - Leo/Amanda Gris. But beyond the constant literary allusions, what makes the ※literarity§ of this film is, on the one hand, the construction of the protagonist according to literary models and on the other the exploration of her subjectivity through her writing. Leo as a character is created as a replica of the tormented writers that she admires. In their stereotypical tradition, she is an alcoholic, addicted to sleeping pills, suicidal, obsessed with her loneliness and installed in her writing as a survival space. Furthermore, the spectator accesses her subjectivity through her career as a writer because her melodramatic life gets entangled with her novels. Almod車var projects his literary ghosts in La flor de mi secreto and in the process, subverts the parameters of literature, the canon, the gender and genre categories and the question of authorship. He also resists a stable definition of literature as art by inserting it in a filmic text, favoring a complex intertextuality which contributes to dissolving the frontiers between high and low culture and to opening a common ground for the arts. Las m迆ltiples referencias a la escritura presentes en La flor de mi secreto (1995) han llevado a etiquetar esta pel赤cula como la m芍s literaria de Pedro Almod車var. La lectura y la escritura funcionan como hilo conductor de la pel赤cula en la medida en que articulan la existencia de la protagonista, Leo/Amanda Gris. Pero m芍s all芍 de este despliegue de alusiones literarias, lo que en realidad determina la literaridad del film es, por un lado, la construcci車n de dicho personaje a partir de modelos literarios y por otro la exploraci車n de su subjetividad a partir de la escritura. Leo se perfila como r谷plica de las escritoras ※atormentadas§ a las que admira; alcoh車lica como ellas, adicta a los tranquilizantes, suicida, abrumada por la soledad e instalada en la escritura como espacio de supervivencia. Adem芍s, el espectador accede a su subjetividad a partir de su trayectoria como escritora ya que su melodram芍tica existencia se funde/confunde con su escritura. Almod車var proyecta en La flor de mi secreto sus fantasmas literarios y subvierte en el proceso los par芍metros de la literatura, el valor del canon, las categor赤as gen谷ricas, tanto literarias como sexuales, las leyes del mercado y las cuestiones de autor赤a. Opone adem芍s

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