Kilómetro 11

Abstract

Mempo Giardinelli is an author and journalist from the Chaco province of Argentina. He fled to Mexico in 1976, at the beginning of Argentina’s Dirty War, his life endangered by writings the junta considered subversive. “Kilómetro 11,” published in 1999, takes place a few years after Argentina’s Dirty War has ended. It confronts the traumatic political persecution of that era while demonstrating the victims’ enduring humanity through startlingly merciful confrontations with their former jailers.

Keywords

• mempo giardinelli
• argentina
• dirty war
• guerra sucia
• dictatorship