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Gabriel Saldías Rossel
The complex relationship between truth, violence and justice is especially reflected in the Chilean literature of the 1990s. The objective of this study fits within this transitional context, seeking to describe the scope and transformation of the phenomenon of impunity in neoliberal and democratic Chilean society based on its literary representations, trying to establish in the continuity of change, a meaning derived from the country's historical experience in issues of social justice and political constitutionality. Within the broad literary repertoire of the decade, two specific novels will be analyzed and analyzed: De repente los lugares desaparecen, by Patricio Manns, published in 1992, and 2010: Chile en llamas, by Darío Oses, published in 1998. The selection is sustained on a structural criterion, since both novels constitute literary dystopias, defined by LT Sargent as "a non-existent society described in considerable detail and normally located in time and space that the author intended to contemporaneous reader to view as far worse than the society in which that reader lived" (9). Given that both dystopias are configured as "worst versions" of Chilean neoliberal society, the role that impunity fulfills, as an axial axis of many of the problems that afflict society, is apparent and considerable. However, both narratives also exhibit wide differences in the way of conceiving the scope and impact of the phenomenon, which will ultimately allow a mobility in representation to be described, from an original position, committed to the suffering derived from impunity, towards a more nihilistic and resigned perception.
