“I have finally understood it”. Metaliterary reading of “De su ventana a la mía” (1987)

Abstract

This article proposes a metaliterary reading of the final text in the volume Desde la ventana (1987), entitled “De su ventana a la mía”, whose genre ambiguity is evocative of Martín Gaite’s work. It will be shown how it dialogues with the preceding conferences in the aforementioned volume and, in general, with the literary thought that Martín Gaite articulates in her essays. By means of a semiotic discursive analysis, we will attempt to demonstrate that the unfolding of the mother and her window “escapes” are a mise en abyme both of the writing process and of the reading process.