![]() ![]() ![]() Zerán's book doesn't have quite the same impact. Bernard Schlink's novel The Reader went on to become an international bestseller (and movie) for its compelling treatment of how the country's Nazi past affected the present. ![]() Second-generation guilt and trauma is a subject most associated with German literature. Their contemporary, Alia Trabucco Zerán, chooses to focus instead on the next generation in her debut novel The Remainder – the repercussions of history for the children of those who fought against the dictatorship. Chilean authors such as Isabel Allende, José Donoso and Pedro Lemebel have written acclaimed novels depicting life under a regime that only ended in 1990 after nearly two decades of military rule. ![]() It frequently falls to writers within authoritarian states to document the truth of those "few drops". "Fortunately," he says, "this is not our case. He goes on to say, in a line that is often misquoted, that democracy has to be "bathed occasionally in blood" to ensure it will continue. "Democracy carries within its breast the seed of its own destruction." In an interview with Time magazine in 1973, Chile's military dictator Augusto Pinochet tries to justify the actions of his regime. ![]()
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