Abstract

VASQUEZ MEJIAS, Ainhoa Montserrat. Perro muerto by Boris Quercia and Entre lutos y desiertos by Gonzalo Hernández: Chilean Narcoliterature as a Denouncement of the Crimes of Neoliberalism. Intersticios sociales [online]. 2020, n.19, pp.321-345.  Epub Feb 25, 2020. ISSN 2007-4964.

The format known as ‘narcoliterature’, now common in countries like Mexico and Colombia, has been adopted by some Chilean narratives in the last five years with the goal of denouncing the crimes of the neoliberal system. Perro muerto (2016) by Boris Quercia -which narrates Detective Quiñones’s fight to dismantle a network of prostitution and pedophilia- and Entre lutos y desiertos (2016) by Gonzalo Hernández -which uncovers the exploitation, dispossession and assassinations committed by transnational mining companies- are novels of the narcoliterature genre that address not only the problem of drug-trafficking in Chile but, more importantly, reflect on and question a ruthless neoliberalism that has brought consequences in the form of precarization and death.

Keywords : narcoliterature; neo-detective genre; neoliberalism; violence; Chilean literature.