Anatomy of failure: Newritings of chilean social novel in postdictatorship era

Abstract

The statement of this essay emphasizes that in Chilean post-dictatorship era, emerge a kind of narrative-writing that evoke the ideological project of novela social: chilean socialist realism in literature (1930-1940). In this narrative works, the subject of enunciation is named hombre gris, the man of disappointment. The main objective of this aesthetic project is to reject globalization and recovery literary language and ideology of socialist novelists (e.g. N. Guzmán, among others).