The real, the violent and the revenge in the short story “Putas Asesinas”, by Roberto Bolaño

Abstract

This article aims to undertake an analysis of the story "Putas Asesinas", by Roberto Bolaño, present in the collection of short stories also titled Putas Asesinas, first published in 2001. The story shows the narrative of a prostitute and his involvement with a man named Max, as well as the torture and death of the character. In the analysis we will address issues that revolve around the violence and revenge present in the story. Xavier Crettiez (2009), affirms that defining violence as a set of themes and feats that are easily resembled is impossible, since violence presents itself in multiple forms. In the story, we perceive the strata of violence as an integral part of the social apparatus, without which, perhaps, it would not be possible for society to exist, as well as part of man himself, to this extent we focus on the attitudes that led the main character of the story to avenge In addition to critical and theoretical concepts related to literary aesthetics, we will also contribute to studies related to perversity, cruelty and violence, such as A parte obscura de nós mesmos: uma história dos perversos, by Elisabeth Roudinesco, La ética de la crueldade, by José Ovejero, Literatura e Violência, by Ronaldo Lima Lins, Las Formas de la Violencia, by Xavier Crettiez e Literatura, violência e melancolia, by Jaime Ginzburg, among others.