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Latin American Dictatorship in Erich Hackl's Novel Sara und Simón and Miguel Asturias's El Señor Presidente Gabriel Eckart The Comparatist, Volume 25, May 2001, pp. 69-88 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2001.0007 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/415327/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 11:24 GMT from JHU Libraries THE COMVAnATIST LATIN AMERICAN DICTATORSHIP IN ERICH HACKL'S NOVEL SARA UND SIMÓN AND MIGUEL ASTURIAS'S EL SEÑOR PRESIDENTE Gabriele Eckart When Austrian writer Erich Hackl's novel Sara und Simón was pub- lished in 1995, the truth about the military dictatorship in Argentina from 1976 to 1983 was not widely known. The majority of the Argentine military had not yet admitted that approximately thirty thousand people had been made to "disappear," among them children as well as adults. In order to understand Hackl's intention in writing this novel it is im- portant to know that, until that time, the majority of Argentines contin- ued to support the military's declaration that the reports of these disap- pearances were pure fiction: Den Aussagen der überlebenden Opfer hatte die Mehrheit der Argentinier kaum Beachtung geschenkt. Die Mütter und Großmütter von Verschwund- enen, die jeden Donnerstag vor dem Präsidentensitz
The Comparatist – University of North Carolina Press
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