Una vida que juega con la muerte o sobre Los topos de Félix Bruzzone

Abstract

I propose to analyze Los Topos (2008) by Félix Bruzzone, looking at the similiarities that his narratives shares with the other narratives of children of disappeared, and also, thinking about their divergence. Although his books and performances are crossed by the absence of the parents and by the uncertainty that his multiple narrators - all children of disappeared persons - have about all those disappearances; the family novel is always fragmented and, in the background, so the reconstruction of this genealogy is incomplete. What differentiates his production from all those other narratives, is the fact that his narrators are not specialists of their parents. Bruzzone creates a poetic about uncertainty. His narratives inquire about the constitution of identities in personal and collective processes that are crossed by violence, not only the violence of State Terrorism, but also that which assumes more current forms, linked to captivity, kidnapping of persons and transvestite’s death.