El agua que escapa del puño. Sobre la moral y la autoridadun análisis de Cara de pan, de Sara Mesa

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Abstract: This paper starts from the notion of morality developed by Joan-Carles Mèlich to propose an interpretation of Sara Mesa’s novel Cara de pan as a novel that tries to break with the functional logic of morality. Mesa's work exposes a series of questions that point to the problematization of certain moral and social codes, challenging the official discourses according to which the world is what it is, and is the best of all possible. Mèlich's approach is based on the idea that we are born into a world that is already codified, ordered and (pre)established by morality and its frameworks. However, morality is not ahistorical; it is a construction elaborated to structure and give meaning to the world and, as such, it varies according to the hegemonic system. Mèlich's contributions, which I will relate to certain concepts of Foucault, Butler or Esposito, allow me to break down the configuration of morality and, with it, some of its categories and mechanisms.