The Argentine writer travels through the autobiographical genre to place it in the field of inquiry and reflection in her new book.
Jorge Luis Borges used to say that literature is an act of love; Camila Sosa Villada (La Falda, Argentina, 1982) recalls it in the final pages of ‘El viaje inútil,’ where she acknowledges that the act of love referred to by the writer from Buenos Aires is above all an act towards oneself.
The author realizes this by rereading her first texts, which show her 'that maturing is not always improving. That no matter how many years go by, writing does not get better or worse, it only changes. That all my writing is nothing more than an act of love for myself and that sometimes I'm so stupid that I can't even see it'.
Written before 'Las malas', the novel with which the Argentine writer was awarded the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, and yet published later, 'El viaje inútil' is a short text that moves between the autobiographical and the essay, a text in which the autobiographical is closely linked to writing.
By Marí Iglesia, June 2025
