Resumen

MERCIER, Claire. Una derrota literaria: narrando la dictadura chilena. Intersticios sociales [online]. 2016, n.11. ISSN 2007-4964.

This article considers the literary representation of Chilean dictatorship from the study of four novels: Nocturno de Chile by Roberto Bolaño, El desierto by Carlos Franz, La vida doble by Arturo Fontaine and Formas de volver a casa by Alejandro Zambra.

The Chilean dictatorship has been defined by a sovereign violence which configured during seventeen years a traumatic historical experience. In this sense, this article asks the question of how to narrate the Chilean dictatorship.

For this purpose, a distinction will be made between the narratives strategies used by El desierto and La vida doble which pretend to narrate in a coherent way the dictatorship trauma, and Nocturno de Chile and Formas de volver a casa which accept the difficulties of representing the Chilean dictatorship experience while managing to narrate it from the literary defeated point of view.

Palabras llave : Contemporary Chilean novels; Chilean dictatorship; narratives strategies.