Un rapport de la interrupción

This work is based on a hypothesis: the diarist’s figuration as a literary character (the transformation of life in work) depends on the style and tone of his notations, and these verbal discoveries, on the work that he submits himself daily with the goal of an ethical improvement. From this hypothesis, we try to prove how Rosa Chacel’s diaries, entitle Alcancias, become a novel experiment by defining the diarist’s character as a survivor undergone by the force of failure and interruption. In the framework of this strategy, we identify the two types of failure with which Chacel has a paradoxical relationship, the vital and the literary, and the two tones that manifest this tension: the lament and another less reactive, related to the will of continuation. The mixture of the two tones identifies the intimacy of the diarist with the extreme impuls es that characterize the melancholic humor. The work ends with a reading of how the