Abstract

Jean-Paul Sartre’s notion of bad faith and Elaine Scarry’s view of torture as “suspension of civilization” can be adapted to reveal the symbolic order behind Isabel Allende’s narrative. Love is interwoven with the shadows of the revolution in Chile: the advances in technology, new socialist ideas, the spectre of communism, and above all the right-wing military coup. While men ignore the evidence, the brutality and corruption of the dictatorship bring human beings to a halt. Against passivity and manipulation, Allende, if read through Sartre’s and Scarry’s lenses, indicates the path towards salvation.

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