Apocatarsis 2666. Representations of Evil and the Social Apocalypse in Roberto Bolaño's Novel
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Representations of evil, Communicating vessels, Aesthetics of evil, Apocalypse., Apocatarsis,, 2666,, Bolaño,, Roberto.Abstract
The following work aims to delineate the architecture of evil as the epicenter of the complex Bolanian narrative. The evil is abstracted until it represents the omnipresence of the historical evil of humanity, the small incidents of the novel seem to be disconnected from each other, but beneath the surface are syndromes of the same phenomenon. The underlying idea is to find the structure within the different representations of evil in the novel and how from these the idea of an apocalypse develops as a reading of the hope of the times instead of a social pessimism. It is an attempt to decipher the apocalyptic hope within the aesthetics of the evil of 2666, in addition to understanding the disease of modern man, whose fascination with horror is the oasis where it is contemplated.
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