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Abstract

This study is a comprehensive work that analyzes four Colombian novels published since the year 2000 in which the presence of Nazism is the common element of their stories. Through a reading of Los informantes (2004) by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, El pianista que llegó de Hamburgo (2012) by Jorge Eliecer Pardo, Al otro lado del mar (2017) by María Cristina Restrepo and Diario del fin del mundo (2018) by Mario Mendoza, I examine how the inclusion of Nazism in these novels allows their authors to explore Colombian history, its troubled present and its dystopic future. This dissertation addresses questions of State violence, historical memory, the presence of drug trafficking, and an apocalyptic future in these fictions. In addition, it pays close attention to the emergence of neo-Nazi groups, and similar manifestations of totalitarian ideologies in Colombia. I discuss how Nazism has been normalized in Colombian popular culture and literature, and how some Colombian authors have included Nazism in their novels in a trend that needs to be understood in the use of fictions of Nazism in a global context. I base my investigation on Gabriel D. Rosenfeld, Alon Confino and Peter Novick, who have theorized on the implications of Nazims and the Holocaust as global memory.

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