Belén Gache (

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, 1960) is a Spanish-Argentinian novelist and experimental writer. Of Spanish and Gibraltarian descent, she was born in

. She lives in

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. She graduated from the

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where she was professor in

narratology Narratology is the study of narrative and narrative structure and the ways that these affect human perception. It is an anglicisation of French ''narratologie'', coined by Tzvetan Todorov (''Grammaire du Décaméron'', 1969). Its theoretical li ...

and

literary theory Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis. Culler 1997, p.1 Since the 19th century, literary scholarship includes literary theory and considerations of intellectual history, mo ...

. Her work has diversified into different literary forms. Departing from narrative, she became a pioneer of

electronic literature Electronic literature or digital literature is a genre of literature encompassing works created exclusively on and for digital devices, such as computers, tablets, and mobile phones. A work of electronic literature can be defined as "a constr ...

producing since 1996 various forms of expanded and

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ual writings.

Narrative

Identified with the

postmodern literature Postmodern literature is a form of literature that is characterized by the use of metafiction, unreliable narration, self-reflexivity, intertextuality, and which often thematizes both historical and political issues. This style of experimental ...

movement, her novels are characterized by fragmentation, hyper-realism and the use of unreliable narrators. Influenced by minimalism and anti-novel, her fictions are written in first person and present tense by misfit and quasi-paranoid female

protagonist A protagonist () is the main character of a story. The protagonist makes key decisions that affect the plot, primarily influencing the story and propelling it forward, and is often the character who faces the most significant obstacles. If a st ...

s. Her first novel ''Luna India'' (Indian Moon), was shortlisted in the Planeta Award Biblioteca del Sur, and was published in 1994. Her second novel ''Divina Anarquia''(Divine Anarchy)(1999), deals with the lack of genealogy and the imaginary histories of the narrator. ''Lunas eléctricas para las noches sin luna'' (Electric moons for moonless nights)(2004) takes place in 1910, during the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Argentine Independence, in a Buenos Aires whose population was mainly composed of European immigrants. In this context a detective plot with political connotations is developed, narrated from the point of view of a mythomaniac teenager daughter of Spaniards.

Experimental and electronic literature

In 1995, she created the group and website ''Fin del Mundo'' (End of the World), along with Gustavo Romano, Carlos Trilnick and Jorge Haro in Buenos Aires where she put online her first interactive poems. In 2002 she published ''El libro del fin del mundo''. This physical book also contained a CD-ROM and links to complementary sections on the Internet. It combined pieces of poetry, visual poetry, electronic and multimedia poetry. In 2004, she published ''El blog del niño burbuja'' (The Bubleboy blog) one of the first experiments in fiction blogs. In 2006 she published on the Internet the ''Góngora Wordtoys (Soledades)'' , an anthology of her net-poems produced between 1996 and 2006 and one of her most widely known pieces. Here she proposes the exercise of reading as a decoding task as well as a ludic activity. The fourteen net-poems in this anthology are rooted on the historical avant-gardes, using strategies as randomness, tautology, appropriations and are influenced by concrete and conceptual writing. A second collection made in 2011, ''Gongora WordToys'', focuses on the figure of the

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poet Luis de Gongora deconstructing his masterpiece ''

Soledades ''Las Soledades'' (''Solitudes'') is a poem by Luis de Góngora, composed in 1613 in silva (Spanish strophe) in hendecasyllables (lines of eleven syllables) and heptasyllables (seven syllables). Góngora intended to divide the poem in four par ...

'' (Solitudes). This work is reviewed in Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities Contexts, Forms, & Practices. Edited by Dene Grigar & James O’Sullivan Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Publishing Inc. 2021 Since 2013, she has developed the ''Kublai Moon'' project, an example of "distributed literature" or "literature across networks", through different media (blogs, automatic poem generator, invented typography, Vimeo, and other platforms 2.0) a linguistic sci-fi saga that tells the story of the moon trip of the narrator's alter ego together with Commander Aukan and robot AI Halim.

Essays

* Book of essays, ''Escrituras Nomades, del libro perdido al hipertexto'' (Nomadic Writings, from the lost book to hypertext), (Gijón, Trea 2006), contains researches in expanded,

experimental An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried. Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when ...

and nonlinear literature, emphasizing the continuity of electronic literature strategies with those of the avant-garde and neo avant-garde literary movements as

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concrete poetry Concrete poetry is an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance. It is sometimes referred to as visual poetry, a term that has now developed a distinct mea ...

Oulipo Oulipo (, short for french: Ouvroir de littérature potentielle; roughly translated: ''"workshop of potential literature"'', stylized ''OuLiPo'') is a loose gathering of (mainly) French-speaking writers and mathematicians who seek to create works ...

Fluxus Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finished product. Fluxus ...

or conceptual writing. * ''Narrating with New Media: What Happened with What has Happened?''

References

External links

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Wordtoys''Fin del Mundo''Access to ''Lunas eléctricas para las noches sin luna'', Google Books
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gache, Belen 1960 births Living people Writers from Buenos Aires Writers from Madrid Spanish women novelists Argentine emigrants to Spain 20th-century Spanish novelists 20th-century Spanish women writers Electronic literature writers