Monday, January 22, 2001
Prof writes notes for critical biography
A critical biography of former Chilean dictator/president Augusto Pinochet Ugarte has not been delivered yet.
In Todas las muertes de Pinochet, UGA assistant professor of Romance languages Luis Correa-Díaz has written—in Spanish—a book providing literary notes for such a future work. His book is based on a section from 20th-century Columbian writer Pedro Gómez Valderrama’s Las muertes apócrifas, which narrates the hypothetical deaths of 12 personalities who have played a role either in the history of the Americas or Europe.
The 11th entry describes conjecturally the last and fateful chapter in the biography of Pinochet.
“These apocryphal deaths are literary instruments intended to correct (and perhaps to refute) history in a utopian manner,” Correa-Díaz says. “They are not intended for the reader to know what occurred but rather to imagine what might have happened if . . . , in order to learn what really happened (to us).”
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