Folding and Unfolding the Other in Anne Carson’s Nox

The aim of this chapter is to explore the reconstructive processes of the other through poetic composition. In Nox, Carson engenders the other—her brother Michael—by constituting a book that reveals a vision (as a hypothesis) possible to be recovered from fragments. This chapter figure establishes itself not only as a phásma, but also as a portrait that is drawn with the coordinates inscribed in the book—through the verb or the image, or even through the very spatiality of the object itself and the reading process, seeking to answer the question that guides the work: who were you?