María Teresa Andruetto: A Literature without Adjectives

This article analyses the work of María Teresa Andruetto as a challenge to the notion of children’s narrative as a genre as it traces how Andruetto uses a language strictly based on aesthetic purposes and beyond the traditional restrictions prescribed to children by parents and publishers. Andruetto’s search along her own memory path leads to the construction of atmospheres centered in unusual issues in children’s narrative, such as individuality, otherness, poverty, disability, politics, the macabre, and the grotesque: all of which are considered by her as essential to children’s understanding of the world.