What is it like to live under the regime of the beast?

A look at the violence of the present from Butazzoni’s novel

Abstract

In posture and narrative, Butazzoni’s historical narration of violence opens the way for a critical interpretation of violence without abandoning self-criticism of the political and revolutionary movements of the seventies. In the choice of the varied cases and situations, the denunciation of a structural, political, state, institutional and patriarchal violence prevails, struggling to show the humanity of those who found themselves in that unequal political battle that was waged in the Latin American continent.The violence -new and old- that we find in post-dictatorial scenarios takes place in a democracy in which the cruelty and lethality of various practices suffered by vulnerable populations are trivialized day by day. The exercise of sadism and state violence leaves its mark and the quest to rebuild a democratic society respectful of human rights calls for a sociology of the practices of violence that escapes criminological reductionism and poses political, philosophical, anthropological and human questions, all of which are present in Butazzoni’s work. Hence, his reading takes value for the critical interpretation of a present and a present time, which is drowned in a pornography of violence disseminated with no other object than the criminalization and depoliticization of the conflict.