Alina, es la reina y..., cinco palabras para inventar un mundo

Throughout an analysis of the short story ?Lejana, diario de Alina Reyes?, published en 1951 by Julio Cortazar and written in first person femenine, itcan be appreciated up to what stage the word, the literary word, has thepower to construct diverse realities. Even though, these realities do notconstitute an infinite and parallel series of possible worlds, letting fantasyflow side by side with reality, it demostrates that between this world and thatone, between what is real and what is written, between here and there, aconstant, continuous and reciprocal communication is established. Words, with their multiple characteristics (their sounds, their graphs, their literal, associative and symbolic meanings), start beloging to those objects of theworld which we call real, just like the cities, the rivers that flow throughthose cities, the people and friends who live there, modifyng our own selvesand aur lives. At least this is what short stories as ?Lejana? are teaching us torecognize in literature.