1. In the opening lines of Menchú’s autobiography she claims that “my personal experience is the realityof a whole people”
(1). To what extent do such claimson the exemplariness of her story collide with theindividuality expected from a true personal account?
2. What is the role of ultra-violence in the depictionof Rigoberta’s brother’s assassination?
3. How is the of the repression against the Mayanpeople featured inWhen The Mountains Tremble?Select one or two sequences and comment them.
4. Reflect on how the impact of the Guatemalan Genocide affects nowadays one of the persons featured in Granito.
5. Pamela Yates reflects on the value of visual and printed documents in Granito.Analyze one example.
6. When is Carlos Wieder’s true self as a murderouspsychopath come to the surface in the novel?
7. How can we interpret symbolically the merging of poetry, sexual seduction, and brutal murder in thefigure of Carlos Wieder?
8. Provide with two examples of the aesthetics of the humorous grotesque that characterize the narrativeof Roberto Bolaño?
9. Why does Guzmán choose the Atacama Desert as thesetting forNostalgia de la luz?
10. How can we interpret the title of the filmNostalgiade la luz [Nostalgia for the light]?
11. What is the relevance of names inDinner?
12. How can we interpret the obsession of the narrator’sfriend with collecting inDinner?
