ABSTRACT
Contrary to the usual trade routes of culture for an Argentine writer, the author had travelled the world over and lived abroad for more than a decade before moving to Pans in 1981. In the larger picture, moreover, as a foreigner and as a Jew, she came at a time when the old ghosts were again rattling their chains with the rise of Jean-Marie LePen and the National Front in France, and the revival of a xenophobic nationalism throughout the continent. Add to this, the fact that she arrived in Paris past forty, a woman alone and not at all skinny, as she puts it, and the multiple dimensions of her marginality physical, cultural, geographical, historical begin to emerge. If within Western culture, Jewish Latin Americans have inhabited a double marginality, the author as a woman moving about alone through the world for some three decades may be considered thrice marginal.
