No Fixed Date is a novel written by Isis Tejeira (Panama, 1936) and published in 1982. The edition of this novel reveals an ironic writing that manages the narrative voice of a woman in dialogue with herself, when she gets trapped in an elevator and, through an inner monologue, she begins to remember her life. The narrator uses ironic and satirical humor to express the dysfunctions of the traditional patriarchal and macho culture, passed on by women in her family, as a result of sexual atavisms and social and religious prejudices, which have psychological effects in the making of character, lifestyle and the cultural programming that leads to the vital failure of the woman trapped in the elevator. In this way she realizes that she has also been trapped in the cultural programming of her life. Certainly, through her ironic and satirical writing, the author describes with accuracy the way women’s awareness is affected by the culture of the traditional patriarchal society that denies women identity autonomy, as a modern tragedy.
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