ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how lyricism is present in contemporary prose and identifies rhythms and repetitions in Cassandra Float Can by Anne Carson from North America and Primavera extremeña by Julio Llamazares from the Iberian Peninsula, to show their key role in enabling a synchronic process in the recalling and calling of memory, both personal and historical, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. It claims that lyricism’s fundamental presence is increasingly free from national boundaries and literatures.
