The Impossibility of Correcting Memory: “Insensatez” by Horacio Castellanos Moya

In Horacio Castellanos Moya’s novel Insensatez, the memory of violence is filtered through the concept of the archive. The protagonist is a copyeditor who edits a piece regarding massacres in an unnamed Central American country and is overwhelmed by its poetic wealth, while seeming not to care about...

• Main Author: Romero Vinueza, Juan Andrés (author)
• Format: article
• Language: spa
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: archivo; Castellanos Moya; Insensatez; memoria; violencia; archive; memory; violence
• Online Access: https://revistadigital.uce.edu.ec/index.php/CONTEXTOS/article/view/2479