A play between fiction and non-fiction: retelling a story of exile and disappearance in missing (una investigación) (2009) by Alberto Fuguet

Lazo-González, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0232-921X (2021) A play between fiction and non-fiction: retelling a story of exile and disappearance in missing (una investigación) (2009) by Alberto Fuguet. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 98 (2). pp. 195-212. ISSN 1475-3839 doi: 10.3828/bhs.2021.12

Abstract/Summary

This article explores the way in which Missing (una investigación) plays with the limits between fiction and non-fiction in dealing with two of the most prominent issues of the politico-historical Chilean context of the twentieth century: exile and disappearance. It does so through a close reading of the novel’s narrative form and its relationship to the context that the novel addresses. It attempts to demonstrate that, despite its setting outside Chile and an author who is apparently not interested in ideological debates, the novel is charged with local Chilean socio-political issues inherited from the second half of the twentieth century and presents us with an alternative approach to those issues, as well a problematic reading of them.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/101123
Identification Number/DOI	10.3828/bhs.2021.12
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > Languages and Cultures > Spanish and Hispanic Studies
Uncontrolled Keywords	Alberto Fuguet; Missing (una investigación); exile and disappearance; auto-fiction
Publisher	Liverpool University Press
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