ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 focuses on the impact of terrorist acts, in particular, the fracturing of Basque society caused by the terrorist group ETA in novels by Basque writers, Bernardo Atxaga and José Javier Abasolo, and a non-Basque author, Jorge Martínez Reverte. The chapter examines the innovative ways in which their novels represent political violence through an emphasis on the under-analysed figure of the victim. By focusing on the consequences of crime through the victim, the chapter argues that the novels seek to reclaim victimhood from competing Basque and Spanish nationalist discourses.
