Inhabit the shadows

Drifts of systemic violence in Preguntas frecuentes by Nona Fernández

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the drifts of systemic violence present in the novel Preguntas frecuentes (2020) by Nona Fernández and its ways of operating regarding the question of literature and the limit of discourse. For this, the notion of violence is observed as a constituent phenomenon of current literary production, underlining the participation of literature as an agent that makes visible the experiences of systemic violence from its prospective and specular nature. This approach is projected in attention to the analysis of literary discourse, its limits and possible influences as a channel that reveals the phenomenon of violence. Likewise, its discursive potentiality will be analyzed by investigating the traumatic knots of the experiences in the subjects and in the reflections of the community, appealing to the exploration of the intimate and the public.