Telaraña de/mente: Una poética de la desmesura para interpretar el deseo femenino

In the following article, we intend to explore the themes of fear and female madness found in three texts and, in turn, compare them with one other based on the man–woman dyad. We have chosen rioplatenses authors and stories from the 20th century, at different historic times: since the wellknown 900 Uruguayan generation, to the end of the century. As a hypothesis, we consider that the differences between the characters response to a critique of the predominant mental structure in the context of production that stablishes the linkages between men and women. The texts are: “La meningitis y su sombra” (1917) by the Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga (1878 – 1937), “Las viejas fantasiosas” (1981) by the Argentine writer Elvira Orphee (1922–2018) and the erotic story “Camino de las prederias” (1997), by the Uruguayan poet Marosa di Giorgio (1932 – 2004).