ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Violence in Latin American Literature is a book that is current, more current than ever, which aims to reflect the issue of violence as a prism, that is, from different angles. Much of Latin American literature has dealt with questions of violence, albeit changing over the centuries, although it has managed to maintain a singular line of continuity. In 1971, Andres Avellaneda wrote a review for the Iberoamericana magazine on Ariel Dorfman’s book published the previous year. It was called Imaginación y violencia en América, published in Santiago de Chile by Editorial Universitaria. Avellaneda pointed out that the essence of Dorfman’s analysis was to show how violence had created a unique cosmovision and the American man, defeated or victorious, had sought his innermost being in violence.
