Horacio Castellanos Moya Essays

  • Paranoia In Senselessness By Horacio Castellanos Moya

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    Once having read the book “Senselessness” by Horacio Castellanos Moya, understanding the way the protagonist feels is simple, the protagonist feels paranoid. Each and every little detail and or scenario leads the main protagonist to becoming this paranoid man that he soon fully develops into. For the protagonist, the task of editing and proofreading the one thousand one hundred pages of the indigenous testimonies was too much. Essentially what we see as the readers is a man slowly but surely become

  • Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolano

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    and in the short novella Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya, both Bolano and Moya demonstrate implausible situations, horror, and violence throughout their stories. In Last Evenings on Earth, Bolano divides his stories into those that are recollections of a writer’s days or the accounts of a writer named ‘B’. These short stories explore the question of what it means to be an individual devoting one’s life to artistic expression. In Horacio Castellanos Moya’s Senselessness, he writes about a