A DETECTIVE ON THE CLUE OF FEMICIDE. EL LEVE ALIENTO DE LA VERDAD BY RAMÓN DÍAZ ETEROVIC

Abstract

El leve aliento de la verdad, novel by Chilean writer Ramón Díaz Eterovic is inserted in the Latin American neopolicial in his criticism of a corrupt, patriarchal and sexist society, a system that violent women in sexual, domestic, labor field, until culminating in femicide. A criticism adds a complaint regarding the existence of corrupt and inefficient police and unequal application of laws in Chile. However, this novel Díaz Eterovic can not fully defined under the model neopolicial –and it also detaches from his previous novels– because the detective gets a criminal punishment for femicidal who murdered prostitutes, triumphing over corrupt authorities.