ALINA, ES LA REINA Y..., CINCO PALABRAS PARA INVENTAR UN MUNDO

Throughout an analysis of the short story "Lejana, diario de Alina Reyes", published en 1951 by Julio Cortazar and written in first person femenine, it can be appreciated up to what stage the word, the literary word, has the power to construct diverse realities. Even though, these realities do not constitute an infinite and parallel series of possible worlds, letting fantasy flow side by side with reality, it demostrates that between this world and that one, between what is real and what is written, between here and there, a constant, continuous and reciprocal communication is established. Words, with their multiple characteristics (their sounds, their graphs, their literal, associative and symbolic meanings), start belonging to those objects of the world which we call real, just like the cities, the rivers that flow through those cities, the people and friends who live there, modifying our ownselves and our lives. At least this is what short stories as "Lejana" are teaching us to recognize in literature.