Hunger's brides: Obra, vida e imagen de Sor Juana

This essay takes Hunger’s Brides: A Novel of the Baroque, a historiographic metafictional novel by the Canadian author Paul Anderson as the starting point for a meditation on the work, life, and image of Sor Juana in contemporary literary criticism. The novel criticizes the facile biographical readings that dominate sorjuanine scholarship. It develops this criticism through various literary games which parody critical literature on Sor Juana, the fragmentation of the novel into multiple voices, the splitting of the novel into two novels (one that proposes to be a historical biography of Sor Juana and the other that narrates the process by which the first novel was composed), and the interrogation of the truth and accuracy of the novel by the novel itself.