| WRITING FOR THE FUTURE: ECHEVERRIA'S "EL MATADERO" AND ITS SECRET REWRITING BY JORGE LUIS BORGES AND ADOLFO BIOY CASARES AS "LA FIESTA DEL MONSTRUO" (2007) | |||||||||||||
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| By focusing on the draft quality of Echeverría's “El matadero”, its popular language and the death of the “unitario”, the article explores the work as a parable of on-going Argentine violence. “La fiesta del monstruo” by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares narrates the killing of a bookish Jew during the Peronist era. The two stories are linked through realism and history to suggest why violent confrontations erupt in history and fiction over many years. | |||||||||||||
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