Brief Reflections on the Narrative Art of Carlos Franz: Memory as Catharsis and Redemption in El desierto^*

* This text is a new version of my work El desierto by Carlos Franz; see de Toro (2008: 131-151).

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* This text is a new version of my work El desierto by Carlos Franz; see de Toro (2008: 131-151).

1 Often a victim becomes a perpetrator as in Carne de perra (2009/2010) by Fátima Sime or in La vida doble (2010) by Arturo Fontaine, perhaps the most radical of this type; see de Toro (2013: 267-90).

2 Patricio Guzmán deals with that historic tragedy in an exceptional film, La nostalgia de la luz; see my essay (2017: 144-157).

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Alfonso de Toro

Alfonso de Toro is Professor Emeritus of Romance Studies and Director of the Ibero-American and Francophone Research Centers at the University of Leipzig and of its book series. His numerous publications in more than twelve languages deal with theater, narrative, poetry and culture in France, the Maghreb, Spain, Latin America, and Italy; as well with Post-Modern, Post-Colonial, Hybridity and Diaspora theories.