Between non-Fiction and Historical Novel: Ambiguity and Efficacy in Noviembre, by Jorge Galán
Abstract
November (2015), by Jorge Galán, evokes and enquires from the present the murder, in November 1989, of Spanish Jesuit Ignacio Illacuría, including all witnesses at the Monseñor Romero Centre, located in the Centro American University of San Salvador. The book was introduced, by the author and critics, as a novel (not even a historic one). However, such generic classification seems rather dubious: it includes more arguments to categorise the text as nonfiction. Actually, we face a specific case of hybrid poetics, which ambiguity reveals itself fairly effective in its compromise to fight against the oblivion, the omission and distortion of the story, contributing to build up collective memory.
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