Chile, 21st century: when the generation of the children tells the dictatorship

The aim of this article is to introduce three Chilean authors who grew up under Pinochet's dictatorship and published in the post-dictatorship. These authors seem to us to be representative of a generation of young authors developing both in Chile and Argentina. It is not a question of taking a tour of all the current Chilean production, which is very diversified and rich, but of focusing on three novels in which the dictatorial period is evoked. In fact, the interesting thing will be to see how the children tell the dictatorship or rather how the dictatorship sneaks into their stories in the same way that it sneaks into the present of Chile. In fact, the past continues to be alive in the present of the country and continues to be present in the different discourses, whether voluntarily or involuntarily. In other words, how current Chilean authors transcribe in the fictitious discourse of novels the relations of tension that animate the legacy of the past and try to create a partial, fragmentary, chaotic, conflictive recomposition of a traumatic past that has never been overcome.