Centrifugal Trauma: Postestimonial Writing and Evanescence in Félix Bruzzone’s Narrative

Abstract

This paper’s main goal is to approach Argentinian writer Felix Bruzzone’s poetics (Buenos Aires, 1976). Such poetics might be understood as a way to overcome rhetorical propensity incurred by testimonial narrative. That is why Bruzzone’s work will be discussed through the key concept of posmemoria (Marianne Hirsch 2008). This will lead us to deepen both in postestimonial writing’s field and in functionality this writing shows when partnering with autofiction. It will also be analysed to what extent ego´s fictional fold helps second generation victims to express enforced disappearance and memory of damage inflicted as well. Consequently, we will particularly stress on Los topos (2008). In this novel, through the prism of humour, parody and spread of hauls, Bruzzone weaves a web of visible narrative frames at the intersection between detective genre, melodrama, eventful and melodramatic matters. These distance resources provide a non-inmediate trauma’s drafting but elapsed. Disappeared space is therefore reinvigorated to offer a different way to set victim-offender bonds.