Alegorías de la derrota: La ficción postdictatorial y el trabajo del duelo (Serie Ensayo)

by Idelber Avelar

Spanish

336 pages, Unknown Binding

First published November 19, 1999

Reviews

[Lidiana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Avelar's work is so interesting! The way he writes is academy with passion, which is rare!!!

[Sierra · Rating 4 out of 5]

"As the sociopolitical context evolves, the discourses I have highlighted should, themselves, progressively become allegorical ruins, much like the memories of past defeats they engage. This self-reflexive, potentially infinite chain of allegorization is not, as some versions of a self-satisfied post-modernism would have it, to be celebrated. On the contrary, the chain should always be brought to a halt, interrupted, and referred back to the desolation and misery that makes it possible."

It's been a long few days, but finally finished—this was quite good, if a difficult read.