Write after the Disaster: Memory and Testimony in "Estrellas muertas" by Alvaro Bisama

Abstract

In this article it is analyzed differents manifestations of memories, testimonies, witness, horror  and violence that can be found in the novel Estrellas Muertas of the writer Álvaro Bisama, novel that is a song of the postdictatorship in Chile. It does a brief review of the work of the author and his contemporaries made after a review of the historical context of the time in conflict is made from seventy to ninety in order to demonstrate where the author writes and hoping to collaborate to dialogue and discussion around this concepts.