La espera del evento: dimensiones de la (in)movilidad doméstica en <i>La vida inmueble</i> de Federico Galende y <i>Preguntas frecuentes</i> de Nona Fernández

Abstract

Set in the Covid-19 pandemic, La vida inmueble (2022) by Federico Galende and Preguntas frecuentes (2020) by Nona Fernández address the daily life of confinement as a tension between immobility and mobility. Both Chilean works propose in the act of waiting an opening towards change in relation to an event that questions the politics of the pandemic and the sense of community. In its affective dimension, the health crisis projects new alliances of life that transform the everyday landscape into an imaginary and virtual community. On the one hand, in La vida inmueble, immobility will be explored as a wait that produces an affective practice of the domestic space in dialogue with the public space. On the other, in the case of Fernández, the link between waiting and the critical potential of everyday life will be analyzed in relation to a landscape that connects the pandemic with the 2019 October protest.