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Jason Wilson, Writing for the Future: Echeverría's “El matadero” and its Secret Rewriting by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares as “La fiesta del monstruo”, Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 43, Issue 1, JANUARY 2007, Pages 81–92, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cql114
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By focusing on the draft quality of Echeverría's “El matadero”, its popular language and the death of the “unitario”, the article explores the work as a parable of on-going Argentine violence. “La fiesta del monstruo” by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares narrates the killing of a bookish Jew during the Peronist era. The two stories are linked through realism and history to suggest why violent confrontations erupt in history and fiction over many years.
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