{"title":"Luisa Etxenike's Trilogy on Terrorism","authors":"Agnieszka Gutthy","doi":"10.18122/boga.9.1.2.boisestate","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the themes of the three novels of Luisa \n Etxenike: El ángulo ciego (Blind Spot, 2009), Absoluta presencia (Absolute \n Presence, 2018), and Aves del Paraíso (Birds of Paradise, 2019). The novels \n form a trilogy on ETA terrorism, and each novel is dedicated to a different emotion caused by this violence: fear, \n guilt, and shame. In her novels Etxenike moves away from the portrayal of terrorists and toward portrayal of the victims. \n She approaches the theme of ETA violence and of social fragmentation and suffering it has caused emphasizing the culture \n of blame and fear that this violence instills in its survivors. She structures her novels on a central axis, moral \n questioning. Each novel is a reflection on the consequences of terrorism in the life of its victims.","PeriodicalId":332311,"journal":{"name":"BOGA: Basque Studies Consortium Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"BOGA: Basque Studies Consortium Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.18122/boga.9.1.2.boisestate","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article discusses the themes of the three novels of Luisa
Etxenike: El ángulo ciego (Blind Spot, 2009), Absoluta presencia (Absolute
Presence, 2018), and Aves del Paraíso (Birds of Paradise, 2019). The novels
form a trilogy on ETA terrorism, and each novel is dedicated to a different emotion caused by this violence: fear,
guilt, and shame. In her novels Etxenike moves away from the portrayal of terrorists and toward portrayal of the victims.
She approaches the theme of ETA violence and of social fragmentation and suffering it has caused emphasizing the culture
of blame and fear that this violence instills in its survivors. She structures her novels on a central axis, moral
questioning. Each novel is a reflection on the consequences of terrorism in the life of its victims.