The Sirens Song and the Voices of Memory

Abstract

The journey through the meanings of the word seduction converge in the semantics of the isolated that corresponds with the levels of the presence of seduction in discourse proposed by Herman Parret. Starting from them, the article investigates the relationship of seduction with meaning, the voice and the veiled presence of the body in the legend of the sirens and in the text Homenaje by Silvia Molloy. Two literary stagings of seduction joined by the evasive character of the seductive object and by the distance that separates the subject from the object of desire, which is an interval that installs both in the suspension that keeps them apart. For the seduction the tension constitutes a dialectical space between the invisible and the visible. This interplay manifests itself in the movement that progressively postpones the finding of the seductive object. The function of the veil sustains the suspensive strategy of the seductive image analyzed in the legendary stories and in the genesis of the fragmented lyrical composition.