Echoes of Evil: Violence, History, and Lineage in María Gainza and Carla Maliandi
Both the story “Gracias, Charly”, included in El nervio óptico, and La estirpe address conflicts dating back to the 19th century and a specific zone where their family history intersects with that of the country, as in both cases the echoes of the war and the conquest of the Gran Chaco haunt their n...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
2026
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/matadero/article/view/17611 |
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| Sumario: | Both the story “Gracias, Charly”, included in El nervio óptico, and La estirpe address conflicts dating back to the 19th century and a specific zone where their family history intersects with that of the country, as in both cases the echoes of the war and the conquest of the Gran Chaco haunt their narrators in an urban and contemporary present. From the margins of reality, Gainza and Maliandi return to the past to dismantle it and thus question the image of a civilized and virile nation built on the foundation of violence and plunder. This perspective can only be embodied by those who betray their lineage. That is, by those who know the intimacy of family history and, rather than reproduce it, choose to conjure it through literature. |
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