To make live- to let die- to make flee: Carla’s flight in How to disappear completely by Mariana Enriquez

Abstract

In this article we approach Mariana Enriquez novel’s How to dissapear completely. We stop at the construction of Carla as a figure of the monstrous because we consider that from her presence in the story the social and political meanings that a face entails are made visible. The text allows us to think about what is generated when what is expected of a face is stressed and it flees from the orders assigned by the faciality machine (Deleuze & Guattari, 2002). Faced with the biopolitical to make live and let die (Foucault, 1991), we read Carla’s deterritorializing movements from the Deleuzian to make flee, as a force that allows us to trace lines of flight. Since flight is a third term unthought of by doxa (Barthes, 2004), we believe that Enriquez’s text allows us to think about the possibilities of the abject in the dispute and problematization of the politics of the face.