Subversion of identity in Love is a tough drug by Cristina Peri Rossi

Abstract

The novel El amor es una droga dura by Cristina Rossi and others from the same author, deals with problems of gender identity with mastery. In the following pages we are going to check this novel on the basis of the postulates that Judith Butler does on her essay El género en disputa. The feminism and the subvercitivity of the identity. Javier and Nora, the protagonists of this story transit uncomfortably through the rooted conceptions in the culture which is attributed to men and women. To Javier, it will be the desire which will lead him to the limits of his configuration as a male-subject. Nora, as the object of Javier´s desire, moves petulantly, arbitrarily impelled by her muddled passions. On the course of the story, fissures are introduced on both characters, fissures that slowly vanish the limits of her identity.