THE DISCOURSE OF VIOLENCE IN LOS JUEGOS VERDADEROS DE EDMUNDO DE LOS RÍOS

Abstract

This article develops two critical approaches to Los juegos verdaderos (1968) by Edmundo De los Ríos organized around a critical discourse on violence. The first maintains that this novel has elements of a programmatic literature; nevertheless, it is inscribed above all within a critical literature. The second establishes that the uses of violence in the discourse of this novel deconstruct the revolutionary utopia. It is concluded that the discourse of this novel questions the revolutionary utopia of the Latin American left of the sixties, first, taking distance from a programmatic literary project, for which it is situated within a critical literature; and, second, presenting the limitations of revolutionary violence.