Transnational allegory and violence of writing in Frente a un hombre armado by Mauricio WacquezAndrés

Abstract

This article analyzes the textual and discursive resources through which Frente a un hombre armado (1981) by Mauricio Wacquez reflects on power and is configured as a transnational allegory of totalitarianism and dictatorial violence. For this purpose, the research addresses the novel and its relation to the historical circumstances that framed its production and studies the ways in which the text develops an essential linkage between class hegemony and sexual aggression. Ultimately, this paper posits that Wacquez’s novel consists of a response to horror whose allegorical construction exceeds the representative limits of the nation-state.