The discurse of failure on two Latin American authors: Arturo, la estrella más brillante by Reinaldo Arenas and Estrella distante by Roberto Bolaño

Abstract

The authors pictured on their novels –Estrella distante and Arturo, la estrella más brillante– the feeling of failure of a modern man. The feelings are produced by political and social changes that drive the protagonists –both protagonists with alter egos of each writer– the feeling of lost self, ontological category, here understood as a selfdestruction behavior. The setting is characterized by decadence places, degradation and destruction. Both narrative projects express themselves from the point of view of comparative literature, shown by Bolaño the staging of ‘evil’ as transverse axis, that overlaps a mean and malleable concept of truth and Arenas as an apocalyptic vision of the revolution which was originally supported by he, butt ends up excluding it.