The savage detectives of Roberto Bolaño: fragments and passages of the Latin American reality

Abstract

In his novel, The savage detectives, Roberto Bolaño invites us to walkthrough
the history of terror experienced after the establishment of a series of dictatorships
and totalitarian governments during the sixties and seventies in the Latin
American region. Through a series of historical facts fictionalized by a movement
of Latin Ameican strident poets, the author lets us glimpse, as if it were a
regional radiography, a whole series of scenarios ranging from repression and
state terrorism, to the exile, patriarchy, the search for a Latin American poetic
identity, among others. This article seeks to establish a relationship between
these fictional facts and the Latin American historical reality.