Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya
A translator working with a United Nations team to render a report on massacres in an unnamed Central American country becomes consumed by the task; as he edits a Portuguese-to-Spanish manuscript of testimonies and official documents, he confronts erased names, fragmented memory, bureaucratic indifference and the moral limits of language, and gradually descends into obsessive rumination, paranoia and a crisis of responsibility—a claustrophobic meditation on violence, complicity and the impossibility of fully conveying atrocity.
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- Published
- 2008
- Nationality
- Salvadoran
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- Original Language
- Spanish
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- Alternate Titles
- - Insensatez
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