Post-Dictadura Literature

Friday, November 25, 2011

The Economist has a very nice literature roundup of Argentine fiction about the last dictatorship and the desaparecidos, including works by Tomás Eloy Martínez, Carlos Gamerro, Iosi Havilio, and Matías Néspolo. A chilling but arguably true end to the review stuck out:

One of the characters in “An Open Secret” claims bitterly that in Argentina, “the winners make history and the losers write it.” To judge from these novels that scour the past and mourn the future, it seems nobody won.

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