THE BODY OF THE ARCHIVE: FUNCTION, TESTIMONY AND THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ORDER. NOTES ON 'INSENSATEZ' AND 'DOS VECES JUNIO'

Authors

  • Martín Lombardo Université de Savoie Mont Blanc

Keywords:

Latin American literature, archive, testimony, body, Castellanos Moya, Kohan

Abstract

Based on the novels Insensatez, written by Horacio Castellanos Moya, and Dos Veces Junio, written by Martin Kohan, this article ponders the representation of an archive and a testimony in a narrative text. Through two different ways of using a file and an institutional document to make a political denunciation, these two novels question the writing style of the document, the use of the body of someone who serves an institutional function, and the tension between the archive and the testimony, in order to propose the link between what is unspeakable of horror, the fantasy and the historical truth.

Author Biography

Martín Lombardo, Université de Savoie Mont Blanc

Maître de Conférences

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Published

2018-01-31

How to Cite

Lombardo, M. (2018). THE BODY OF THE ARCHIVE: FUNCTION, TESTIMONY AND THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ORDER. NOTES ON ’INSENSATEZ’ AND ’DOS VECES JUNIO’. 452ºF. Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (18), 31–52. Retrieved from https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/452f/article/view/19324

Issue

No. 18 (2018): The Paradigm of the Archive in Contemporary Narrative and Visual Culture

Section

Monograph

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