The purpose of this article is to read Las horas claras (2013) by Jacqueline Goldberg as a means to reveal the ways that this novel, through its "trans-gender" condition, intervenes in official history and proposes a poetics of non-belonging based on the gesture of cracking the topos of the house as a common space of human dwelling. This is also perceived as a form of intervening in literary dwelling by decentering its limits towards other experiences and knowledges such as architecture, botany and culinary. For Goldberg, narrating the life of a French woman in the first half of the 20th century, entails thinking of existence as an inedible fungus, as a green grapefruit that intoxicates and provokes death. In this way, her writing breaks down the hierarchy between human and non-human life to show how the living also expresses negative affects that operate to destroy