La comunicación profética en La morada en el tiempo de Esther Seligson

Abstract

Of the numerous traditions that the Mexican writer Esther Seligson adapts in La morada en el tiempo (1981), which spans Jewish history from the creation to the second part of the twentieth century, the present analysis focuses on prophetic communication. This study puts forward a reading that shows that many passages in Morada could be considered examples of prophetic discourse. Not only does Morada include modified versions of the prophets’ stories, the central speaker also constitutes an updated figure of the prophet. At the same time, the speaker examines the meaning of silence in human-divine communications.