ABSTRACT
This chapter presents type of fiction that can be described as 'a poetics of evil', a poetics that takes literature as a radical vocation of perpetual antagonism. It discusses the poetics of evil is productively destructive of the convergence of ethics, aesthetics, and politics as established in the socialist social contract. The chapter provides the community/communism conflict inherent to the revolution through the lens of Guillermo Rosales's Boarding Home as seen by its protagonist, William Figueras. It explores alluding to a scene in Rosales's novel that advances and questions some of the philosophical stakes in the poetics of evil. A Nietzschean ethics destroys the social in the name of the human, leaving virtually no room for new societies and new values. It is fair to say that a poetics of evil obliges us to reflect on 'the century' with eyes wide open.
