"The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain."
— Roberto Bolaño
2666
In Roberto Bolaño's 2666 the authors research is clearly seen in his practice as the chapter entitled 'The Part About The Crimes' documents a series of femicides that occurred in Ciudad Juarez with a journalistic detachment that makes the reading of the chapter more unsettling. In the novel, the crimes are set in the fictional town of Santa Teresa. The author gives a context to each of the murders to humanize the victims and explore the ongoing corruption that allows the murder of women to continue without being cluttered by the media's focus on Ciudad Juarez as a battleground in Mexico's drug war. These are human casualties.
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