Who Dares Writing with Gloves? Objects, Consumption, Circulations, and Transgressions in Aurora Cáceres’ Mi vida con Enrique Gómez Carrillo (1929)

Morales-Pino A. · Mitologias Hoy (2026) · DOI: 10.5565/rev/mitologias.1290

Resumen

Mi vida con Enrique Gómez Carrillo (1929) is an autobiographical text in which diverse textualities converge, revealing the challenges posed by Cáceres to the literary field and its systems of classification. Building on readings of the texts as a modernist chronicle against the grain, I focus on the material dimension: the world of objects and their circulation, key to Cáceres dismantling of the paradigmatic figure of the modernist artist, exclusionary towards women. The photograph Gómez Carrillo sends Cáceres, depicting himself writing with gloves, triggers this rupture, as the author exposes the performativity of the modernist artist and foregrounds their banality, unworthy of celebration. This is made clear by the relation between gloves and the reluctance to become tainted or to ideologically committed. Concomitantly, it allows her to surface the labor-intensive, exhausting, and embodied dimension of writing, incarnated in her own trajectory. From the perspective of material world, strongly sidelined by modernist ethos, since it associated objects and accumulation with the prosaic bourgeois universe, the texts foster a knowledge about the fallacy behind the modernist artist alleged superiority and, instead, reveals their comfortable participation within the industrial logics of serial production. © (2026), (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona). All rights reserved.

Instituciones: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú