Abstract

The short stories which make up Julieta Pinto's Detrás del espejo constitute a sample of contemporary narrative: intimate, reflexive, oneiric, where certainties disappear and everything gets diluted in representations of natural elements (fog, the river). It is a text in which references to female subjectivity abound, for elements which reinforce it are accentuated, like the paradigms of Shakesperean characters or surrounding elements which contribute to its feminization; it is a redefinition of the act of writing itself.

Keywords: Costa Rican literatura; Julieta Pinto; Detrás del espejo; female subjectivity