Questions for Bolaño

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Notes

1 As reported in The New York Times, March 11, 2009, cited in The Guardian, these were novels titled ‘Diorama’, ‘The Troubles of a Real Police Officer’, and ‘The Third Reich’.

2 ‘A Chilean Novelist's fictions’. The New York Times, January 28, 2009.

3 ‘The figure in the carpet’ is a reference to Henry James's story of that title.

4 ‘Las raíces de esta guerra están dentro de las casas’. La Jornada, March 10, 2009. The title cites Esther Chavez Cano, who founded the Casa Amiga and was given a Human Rights Award. She describes Juárez as ‘una ciudad sin ley‘. There are two documentary films on the killings, Senorita Extraviada, directed by Lourdes Portillo, and Bajo Juárez: La ciudad devorando a sus hijas, directed by Alejandra Sánchez and José Antonio Cordero.

5 In a chapter of my as yet unfinished book, Cruel Modernity, I deal more extensively with rape as a weapon of war and the Juárez tortures and rapes as the marking of territory.

6 Rosa Linda Fregoso, ‘¡Las queremos vivas! La política cultural de los derechos humanos’. Debate Feminista, año 20, vol. 38, 1–39. The Juárez feminicide is by no means unique in Latin America. Women's organizations are publicizing others down to the present.