The Bifid Author Fiction in Isla partida by Daniela Tarazona

Abstract

This article explores the bifid author fiction developed by Daniela Tarazona in Isla partida. Employing Sabine Schlickers’ concept of author fiction, it traces the series of splits that the authorial voice undergoes in order to account for the complications of the writing exercise. At least three splits are proposed: that of Daniela Tarazona as a narrator-writer, as a character in a (meta)novel, and as a she who is in reality Eunice Odio, the Costa Rican poet who lived in Mexico in the sixties. It is concluded that the bifid author fiction allows the author to develop a social critique of her familiar and political context, and at the same time, a professional introspection and reflection. As Sabine Schlickers suggests, author fiction draws on the vulnerability of the writer to expose aspects of their daily life that will be reevaluated or reconsidered by them.