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Introduction
by Natasha Wimmer
by Natasha Wimmer
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charnel
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(noun) a building or chamber in which bodies or bones are deposited
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the charnel house of Santa Teresa is linked to the corruption and decadence of twentieth century European history and culture.
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the charnel house of Santa Teresa is linked to the corruption and decadence of twentieth century European history and culture.
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[...] Imitators of the Boom were (and are) legion, but Bolano and others of his generation tended to see them as selling an exotic stereotype -- dictators, whores, patriarchs, and ghosts -- for export only. The situation in Latin America had changed. The dictators, for the most part, were gone. Capitalism, the World Bank, and the international drug trade replaced caudillos, death squads, and political persecution as the new faces of evil. The phantasms and terrors of the Boom generation had mutated into something more diffuse, unmoored from the local.
[...] Imitators of the Boom were (and are) legion, but Bolano and others of his generation tended to see them as selling an exotic stereotype -- dictators, whores, patriarchs, and ghosts -- for export only. The situation in Latin America had changed. The dictators, for the most part, were gone. Capitalism, the World Bank, and the international drug trade replaced caudillos, death squads, and political persecution as the new faces of evil. The phantasms and terrors of the Boom generation had mutated into something more diffuse, unmoored from the local.