Abstract

RODRIGUEZ MONTIEL, Emiliano. Days of Leaving Home: Romina Paula’s Own Time. perifrasis. rev.lit.teor.crit. [online]. 2024, vol.15, n.32, pp.30-43.  Epub Apr 30, 2024. ISSN 2145-8987.  https://doi.org/10.25025/perifrasis202415.32.02.

This paper focuses on Romina Paula’s work, on how, within her literary, theatrical and cinematographic production, a temporal experience that is both untimely and intimate and that ditfers from the 24/7 logic is composed. My hypothesis, motivated by the double interest of exploring, on the one hand, how the present is being narrated in contemporary Argentine narrative and, on the other, what fictional outlets are being proposed to circumvent the accelerationist imperatives, argues that Paula’s work, conceived as a true space of experimentation with time, rehearses an alternative -a practical and therapeutic solutionby making her characters run away from home. Rather than celebrating that the world has become less slow and enduring, Paula’s women, in need of a break, escape from their fixed abodes in search of some time of their own.

Keywords : Romina Paula; Argentine Contemporary Literature; 21st century; present time; intimacy; the untimely; home; life.

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