Analysis
The reader participates in a meta-text that imitates the style of the school punishments, religious dogmas, and press releases, that is mixed in with the nascent writings of the teenager.
Stylistically, the text is notable for the fragmentation and mixture of genres: diary, letter, prose, poem, comics, etc.
Formal innovation is presented disruptively in several ways: quotes are recurrent and demanding; the typography is used to denounce or to highlight characters or ideas; the footnotes acquire narrative and theoretical value; the fiction within a fiction assumes a Brechtian ethico-revolutionary character.
Drawings, handwritten lines, censored cutouts and galley proofs provoke the reader’s reflection.
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