El proceso místico en Cómo me hice monja (1993) de César Aira

Abstract

The aim of the paper titled The mystical process in César Aira’s Cómo me hice monja (1993), is to show how Cómo me hice monja by César Aira playfully emulates a mystical discourse. Analyzed from this perspective, the apparent dispersion and strangeness of the anecdotes narrated, the language used, and the title of the novel are framed in a structure that corresponds to processes described in mystical texts according to the studies carried out by Bernard McGinn, Michel de Certeau, Juan Martín Velasco and Michel Hulin, among others. From this point of view, the novel can be interpreted as a game that reflects a series of mystical experiences that culminate in an ascension.