The Names of the Other

Abstract

The different tricks to which the proper noun is subjected (pseudonyms, heteronyms, including the name of the author as a character in the narration and other identity games) are some of the ways that cause suspicion between the reader and the author. The name becomes disjointed because the subject cannot remain united and the pleasure of art lies in reporting that impossibility by simultaneously hiding the object. That which the subject has given up for lost becomes a literary text and through the name's disguises, what is reported missing is the subject itself.