Una “fidelidad involuntaria”:

la reescritura en Silvina Ocampo

Abstract

Silvina Ocampo’s works have been studied from many different angles, though writing processes remain still unexplored. Some of her plots and characters were developed in more than one piece, in different genres, turning rewriting processes into crucial creative exercises. This article studies three cases: “Autobiografía de Irene”, “El diario de Porfiria Bernal”, “Del diario de Porfiria”; “El impostor” and an unpublished version for the big screen. Analysis of particular details in each piece, explain how rewriting processes are deliberately essential parts of Ocampo’s writing work. In addition, Ocampo’s own words on the matter reveal the writer’s early and sustained interest in experimentation with genres and the effects of these attempts over her literary works. Ambiguity within the texts has an echo on her authorial positioning, whose displacement from responsibility gestures towards uncertainty.