The nightfall of Chilean stars: Roberto Bolaño's hidden and literary resistance

The Dictatorship of Chile established on September 11, 1973, was a dramatic and traumatic event not only for its population, but also for Latin America. Based on an analysis of three literary works by Roberto Bolaño, the entry Carlos Ramírez Hoffmann, the Infamous of  Nazi Literature in Ame...

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Author: Sousa, Fabio da Silva
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2020
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
Repository:Faces da História
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:seer.assis.unesp.br:article/1772
Online Access:https://seer.assis.unesp.br/index.php/facesdahistoria/article/view/1772
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Literatura
Ditadura Chilena
Roberto Bolaño
América Latina
Literature
Chilean Dictatorship
Latin America
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Summary:The Dictatorship of Chile established on September 11, 1973, was a dramatic and traumatic event not only for its population, but also for Latin America. Based on an analysis of three literary works by Roberto Bolaño, the entry Carlos Ramírez Hoffmann, the Infamous of  Nazi Literature in America, and the novels Distant Star and Night of Chile, this article aims to analyze the context of production of these writings, their narratives and how the Chilean writer worked with memory, oblivion and, finally, the hidden and literary resistance, in transposing, to fiction, all the impact of the fall of Salvador Allende and the government of exception of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.