Abstract
ABSTRACTThe representation of violence has never been an easy task for literature—especially when it comes to narrating traumatic events born out of a dictatorship. The primary objective of this essay is to explore the aesthetics of horror and violence in Milico (2007), a novel that deals directly with the Chilean dictatorship (1973–89). Milico’s particularity and strength come from the heterogeneity of its aesthetic resources—which, ultimately, point to a desire to do justice to the representation of traumatic events. The result is the presence of a multitude of discourse strategies that search to grasp the unrepresentable nature of horror itself.
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