"Bad days will come for love and forgetting": The place of memory in Miramar Hotel by Egor Mardones

Abstract

Miramar Hotel by Egor Mardones shows the intertextual relationship between literature, films, music, and life. The various voices and phantasmagoric entities that populate the textual heterotopia express the love and pain contained within the blue walls of the poetic space, a brothel that turns into a torture chamber. The writer, a survivor of the horror he evokes, records and transcribes the dispersed fragments of memory. From the remnants of what he loved and suffered, he establishes an alliance with the readers -spectators of the destruction and death that govern space- and with the spectral beings that inhabit the place, and thus, writing becomes resistance against death and oblivion.