The impossible duel. Political terror and metaphysical horror in El desmadre by Pablo Farrés

Forty years after the return of democracy in Argentina, the state terror of the last dictatorship continues to be a subject for thinking in art and literature. Directly or indirectly, the political violence of those years became material for both fiction and non-fictional discourses, like chronicle...

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Autor principal: Arce, Rafael
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades 2024
Materias:
dictatorship
state terrorism
political violence
sexual violence
melancholia
dictadura
terrorismo de Estado
violencia política
violencia sexual
melancolía
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/45628
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spelling I10-R377-article-456282024-11-19T23:19:20Z The impossible duel. Political terror and metaphysical horror in El desmadre by Pablo Farrés El duelo imposible. Terror político y horror metafísico en El desmadre de Pablo Farrés Arce, Rafael dictatorship state terrorism political violence sexual violence melancholia dictadura terrorismo de Estado violencia política violencia sexual melancolía Forty years after the return of democracy in Argentina, the state terror of the last dictatorship continues to be a subject for thinking in art and literature. Directly or indirectly, the political violence of those years became material for both fiction and non-fictional discourses, like chronicle and testimony. The history of literature, in turn, has mapped the modes of representation of political violence and State terrorism, pointing out the predominance of allegorical fictions in his first works and the gradual opening to new forms of figuration that, without renouncing to fiction, they dialogue with chronicle and testimony. This article proposes a reading of the novel El desmadre (2013) by Pablo Farrés. The hypothesis is that El desmadre is part of a series of fictions written by the generation of children of missing persons. However, Farrés’ novel, which takes advantage of the openness to irreverent forms such as those of Félix Bruzzone or Mariana Eva Méndez, returns to the allegorical modes of the first narratives of the dictatorship to construct a fiction in which horror overtakes the sense historical and politics, and explores an ontological dimension. Cuarenta años después del retorno de la democracia en Argentina, el terror de Estado de la última dictadura continúa siendo motivo de reflexión para el arte y la literatura. De manera directa o indirecta, la violencia política de aquellos años se convirtió en material tanto de la ficción como de discursos no ficcionales, ejemplos de los cuales son la crónica y el testimonio. La historia de la literatura, a su vez, ha cartografiado los modos de representación de la violencia política y el terrorismo de Estado, lo que señala el predominio de las ficciones alegóricas en sus primeras obras y la paulatina apertura a nuevas formas de figuración que, sin renunciar a la ficción, dialogan con la crónica y el testimonio. Este artículo se propone una lectura de la novela El desmadre (2013) de Pablo Farrés. La hipótesis es que El desmadre se inscribe en una serie de ficciones escritas por la generación de los hijos de desparecidos. No obstante, la novela de Farrés, que aprovecha la apertura a formas irreverentes como las de Félix Bruzzone o Mariana Eva Méndez, retorna a los modos alegóricos de las primeras narraciones de la dictadura para construir una ficción en la que el horror desborda la coyuntura histórico-política y explora una dimensión ontológica. Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades 2024-07-07 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/45628 10.53971/2718.658x.v15.n25.45628 Recial; Vol. 15 Núm. 25 (2024): Dossier: Formas y problemas de la modernidad cultural en América Latina; 159-177 2718-658X 1853-4112 10.53971/2718.658x.v15.n25 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/45628/45716 https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/45628/45731 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
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state terrorism
political violence
sexual violence
melancholia
dictadura
terrorismo de Estado
violencia política
violencia sexual
melancolía
spellingShingle dictatorship
state terrorism
political violence
sexual violence
melancholia
dictadura
terrorismo de Estado
violencia política
violencia sexual
melancolía
Arce, Rafael
The impossible duel. Political terror and metaphysical horror in El desmadre by Pablo Farrés
topic_facet dictatorship
state terrorism
political violence
sexual violence
melancholia
dictadura
terrorismo de Estado
violencia política
violencia sexual
melancolía
author Arce, Rafael
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title The impossible duel. Political terror and metaphysical horror in El desmadre by Pablo Farrés
title_short The impossible duel. Political terror and metaphysical horror in El desmadre by Pablo Farrés
title_full The impossible duel. Political terror and metaphysical horror in El desmadre by Pablo Farrés
title_fullStr The impossible duel. Political terror and metaphysical horror in El desmadre by Pablo Farrés
title_full_unstemmed The impossible duel. Political terror and metaphysical horror in El desmadre by Pablo Farrés
title_sort impossible duel. political terror and metaphysical horror in el desmadre by pablo farrés
description Forty years after the return of democracy in Argentina, the state terror of the last dictatorship continues to be a subject for thinking in art and literature. Directly or indirectly, the political violence of those years became material for both fiction and non-fictional discourses, like chronicle and testimony. The history of literature, in turn, has mapped the modes of representation of political violence and State terrorism, pointing out the predominance of allegorical fictions in his first works and the gradual opening to new forms of figuration that, without renouncing to fiction, they dialogue with chronicle and testimony. This article proposes a reading of the novel El desmadre (2013) by Pablo Farrés. The hypothesis is that El desmadre is part of a series of fictions written by the generation of children of missing persons. However, Farrés’ novel, which takes advantage of the openness to irreverent forms such as those of Félix Bruzzone or Mariana Eva Méndez, returns to the allegorical modes of the first narratives of the dictatorship to construct a fiction in which horror overtakes the sense historical and politics, and explores an ontological dimension.
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