Background
Of Spanish and Gibraltarian descent, she was born in Buenos Aires.
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Belen Gache
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She graduated from the University of Buenos Aires where she was professor in narratology and literary theory.
Career
She lives in Madrid. Her work has diversified into different literary forms. Departing from narrative, she became a pioneer of electronic literature producing since 1996 various forms of expanded and hypertextual writings. Identified with the postmodern literature movement, her novels are characterized by fragmentation, hyper-realism and the use of unreliable narrators.
Influenced by minimalism and anti-novel, her fictions are written in first person and present tense by misfit and quasi-paranoid female protagonists.
Her second novel Divina Anarquia(Divine Anarchy)(1999), deals with the lack of genealogy and the imaginary histories of the narrator. Lunas eléctricas para las noches sin luna (Electric moons for moonless nights)(2004) takes place in 1910, during the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Argentine Independence, in a Buenos Aires whose population was mainly composed of European immigrants.
In 1995, she created the group and website Finance, Financial del Mundo (End of the World), along with Gustavo Romano, Carlos Trilnick and Jorge Haro in Buenos Aires where she put online her first interactive poems. In 2002 she published El libro del finance del mundo.
This physical book also contained a Civil Defense-ROM and links to complementary sections on the Internet.
lieutenant combined pieces of poetry, visual poetry, electronic and multimedia poetry. In 2004, she published El blog del niño burbuja (The Bubleboy blog) one of the first experiments in fiction blogs. In 2006 she published on the Internet the WordToys, an anthology of her Netto-poems produced between 1996 and 2006 and one of her most widely known pieces.
Here she proposes the exercise of reading as a decoding task as well as a ludic activity.
The fourteen Netto-poems in this anthology are rooted on the historical avant-gardes, using strategies as randomness, tautology, appropriations and are influenced by concrete and conceptual writing. A second collection made in 2011, Gongora WordToys, focuses on the figure of the Spanish Baroque poet Luis de Gongora deconstructing his masterpiece Soledades (Solitudes).
Since 2010, she develops the Sultan Florvag project, an example of "distributed literature" or "literature across networks", through different media (blogs, YouTube, and other platforms 20) that invites the reader to reconstruct the story of the fictional character of Commander Aukan, a Panamerican revolutionary who is also an unknown poet and video artist.
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In this context a detective plot with political connotations is developed, narrated from the point of view of a mythomaniac teenager daughter of Spaniards.
