Date of Award
2017-01-01
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Creative Writing
Advisor(s)
Tim Z. Hernandez
Abstract
In the year 2025, Orlando Aniello, nicknamed Or, a Puerto Rican poet with a broken life, becomes a consciousness in virtual space. Tricked by a couple of goons that devote most of their duties to bootleg memories for people who lead dull and meaningless lives, Orlandos personality splits into fragments. As consequence, his actual experiences blend the hosts own recollections, which accidentally upload to Orlandos brain. If bootleg mnemonic technologies glitch, Orlando does not know who he is anymore. Indeed, Orlando/ Gogo/ Alejandro suffers anterograde memory loss, and the narrator becomes merely a voice without a body. A geometry of loss.
Language
en
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
Copyright Date
2017-05
File Size
182 pages
File Format
application/pdf
Rights Holder
Elidio La Torre La Torre
Recommended Citation
La Torre, Elidio La Torre, "The Geometry of Loss: A Novel" (2017). Open Access Theses & Dissertations. 477.
https://scholarworks.utep.edu/open_etd/477
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