Reading others

a reader’s words on The Uncomfortable Dead by the Mexican Paco Ignacio Taibo and Subcomandante Marcos and Amulet by Chilean Roberto Bolaño.

1968 for Mexico, as for many countries around the world, marked a year of student protests, culminating in what has come to be known as the Tlatelolco massacres. Wishing to change the oppressive one party rule of the PRI students revolted in the backdrop of persistent, if not rising social inequalities.

Two recently published novels are on this theme: The Uncomfortable Dead by the Mexican writer of mysteries, Paco Ignacio Taibo and the leader of the Chiapas’ revolt, Subcommandante Marcos and the other one is by the Chilean writer who lived in Mexico in those years Roberto Bolaño- Amulet.

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Latin American Literature, Mexican Literature, Chilean Literature