Abstract

A genre brought to the prominence by books such as Biografia de un cimarron in the 1960s and Me llamo Rigoberta Mechu in the 1980s, 2018’s Testimonios: Kurt Herdan is a fresh example that testimonio is alive and well. It is also an example that the genre is also evolving as it lends voice to the smaller, but no lesser important, voices of history. On this occasion the reader the reader meets Kurt Herdan: a European exile in Chile. Born in 1923, the biographical narrative tells of Herdan’s yo...

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