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By Night in Chile
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Bolaño uses Urrutia’s deathbed confession as a frame narrative for the main story. How does this formal choice affect the presentation of Urrutia’s guilt, complicity, and/or self-deception?
By Night in Chile is full of the language and imagery of psychological repression. What repressed desires, traumas, and/or contradictions surface in Urrutia’s monologue?
Analyze how By Night in Chile explores the nature of dictatorship. How is dictatorship depicted? What does the novel suggest about the form and function of political violence and oppression?
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