Expansions of violence in Venezuela. On disciplinary devices in two narratives of the 60’s

Abstract

This article discusses the modes of figuration of political violence in the Venezuelan narratives of the so–called «violent decade» (1960–1970). Specifically, two important texts are examined: La muerte de Honorio (1963), by Miguel Otero Silva, and Se llamaba SN (1964), by José Vicente Abreu. These artists manage complex concepts such as those of naked life and concentration camps, in benefit, not only of a discursive area of reference, but also of articulating an analytical reading modality that would allow to review, in addition to Venezuelan literary training processes, representations, operations and meanings around the repressive devices of the Perez Jiménez ́s dictatorship.