Abstract

MANSILLA, Miguel Ángel  and  VELEZ-CARO, Constanza. The Non-Veil Death in Norte Grande by Andrés Sabella and Hijo Del Salitre by Volodia Teitelboim. Folios [online]. 2020, n.51, pp.33-47.  Epub July 03, 2020. ISSN 0123-4870.  https://doi.org/10.17227/folios.51-8214.

This article is an analysis of the subject of Death in the novels Norte Grande by Andres Sabella, and Volodia Teitelboim's Hijo del Salitre. We will highlight three dimensions of death: the space, the subject and the utopia. In the first, we highlight two main areas of death: the pampa and the city. In the pampa, the death was due to poor working conditions and adversities of nature, but avoidable. While in the city, death was a systematic rationalization for workers' submission. In the second dimension, the subject, the pampino, who lives with the death every day, highlighting both men and women, like two workers: one exploited at the mine and the other carried on behind the doors. So, both will be partners, not only in exploitation and death, but also in social and political struggle. Finally, in the dimension of utopia, death is inserted within a social and political struggle against the employer and the State, a struggle that transcends space and time spent.

Keywords : Sabella; Teitelboim; Norte Grande; Hijo del Salitre; death; pampa.

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