"El cuento de nunca acabar" y "Visión de Nueva York" de Carmen Martín Gaite. Notas en forma de collages

Carmen Martín Gaite made "Visión de Nueva York", a notebook of collages, in New York in the fall of 1980. There are some compositions which are a visual diary of the manuscript "El cuento de nunca acabar", a metanarrative essay that the author was trying to finish among many doubts. Based on the recent hermeneutics of image, the intersemiotic relationships between the visual texts of some collages and the verbal text of the manuscript will be analysed. The medium of the collage, which is mounted with images coming from destroyed surfaces, needs a metavisual language in order to interpret its syntax of the fragment. It is a syntax similar to the structure of the manuscript "El cuento de nunca acabar". There is an iconic analogy between these collages and the literary subject that the author was deeply meditating: the difficulty of communicating the wholeness of experience through the order of verbal representations, always incomplete.