OLD AGE TRANSGRESSION. WOMEN AND OTHER IN THA NOVEL: THE MEAT AND THE GIGOLO, BY ROSA MONTERO AND BLANCA MIOSI

Abstract

This paper supports the argument that in the novels La carne and The Gigoló, the writers represent in their leading characters: Soledad Alegría and Octavia Cruz, women who transgress gender roles when questioning about eroticism, the desire, the meat, the aging, violating the generic social parameters where the elderly are seen as asexual becoming what Marcela Lagarde calls as the captivity of crazy people by refusing to be a mother and wife only, by falling in love with a man much more young, thus building an image of the other where the protagonist refuses to assume the death of her erotic and personal life with the entrance to what is now called the elderly. The foregoing is based on the analysis of the dramatic structure of the aforementioned novels and the study of the two leading female characters, reviewed through gender theory and otherness.