A historical fiction by the writer Juan Pablo Meneses that gives a new start to the Pinochet dictatorship

Chilean narrator and journalist Juan Pablo Meneses used the intersection of chronicle, non-fiction and creative intervention to compose “A Lost Story” in whose pages he presents a new and possible story about the Air Force bombardment of the city of Santiagowho defined the fate of the President Salvador Allende and the vanquished popular unita parallel retelling of history September 11, 1973.

In “A Lost Story” the author opens up a fascinating hypothesis on an armed resistance that sought the permanence of popular unitborn from the same fighter pilots tasked with delivering the final blow from the air, to the brave and desperate gesture of Salvador Allende maintain his government and wait for a reaction on the edge of the precipice, next to this same death which awaited him after noon on this date.

Juan Pablo Meneses (1969), in this hypothetical story, investigates the bombing of the Chilean Air Force Hospital (LITTLE), during the Coup d’Etat as a reference the three versions known to date.

pablothe protagonist, adds a new version for which the author mixes essay, research and fiction in this new story published under the publishing label tusquets.

“The book is about the collective processes of a country and how wars change our own biography: the protagonist ends up being uprooted because he feels that the bombardment that fell on his head was also a way to expel him from the country” Juan Pablo Meneses.

The first novel by Menesis is un largo viaje como los que le gusta escribir al autor, en el que indaga en un hecho borrado o camouflaged de la historia chilena y en su propia historia, compuesta desde la búsqueda sobre la memoria, los infantile traumas, las raíces y sus efectos en the life.

For the chronological reconstruction of this story, meneses he has scrutinized his story, but warns that the story may have parallels, similarities or simply be the benchmark for so many people’s lives.

The novel recounts the brutal air attack on the Moneda Palacewith the President of the Republic and several of his collaborators inside.

“The definitive version of something will have to be literary, it will not be historical, because even historical documents are all distorted, the exercise of memory seems essential to me, especially in Latin America, which is a pending question, but we must add to investigative journalism, history, literature » Juan Pablo Meneses.

meneses is responsible for depicting all the brutality of this event, the difference of forces, how unnecessary it was and how it would become a symbol and an anticipatory image of all that was fierce and primitive that was on its way to Chile, ora brutal dictatorshipthat started with planes peddler hunter shooting through the flames.

The story presents both the memories and the traumas of a child who lived in the center of a triangle, the vertices of which were the presidential residence of Thomas Morethe hospital of the LITTLEand the family home of Pinochet Hiriart. A little boy who is traumatized after the launching of the projectiles by the suicide bombers, which fell near the family home, a trauma which he could not name nor recognize, until the moment of writing the book.

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