Savage “Detectives” and Trivialization the of Evil
The Narrative Universe of Belano/Bolaño
Keywords:
Roberto Bolaño, “Detectives”, Coup d’état, Value relativism, Historical memory, Bolaño’s readerAbstract
In order to mitigate the damage inflicted by the violence of the 1973 coup d’état, the Chilean post-dictatorship developed a strategy: to relativize the facts. It is a consensual whitewashing aimed at erasing the historical trauma. This operation is revealed – in a surreptitious way and between the lines – in the dialogue that two former police agents of the dictatorship maintain in the story “Detectives”. In this context of mutilations, Bolaño’s art – with knowledge of the world and full management of resources – reinforces its ethical-aesthetic character through the restitution of memory, but also through the alteration of the literary phenomenon since it delegates exclusively to the reader the function of unraveling the truth of a personal and collective history.
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