“LA LLEVAMOS PARA QUE ASISTA AL PARTO DE LA HISTORIA”: TLATELOLCO EN LOS 68: PARÍS, PRAGA, MÉXICO DE CARLOS FUENTES Y AMULETO DE ROBERTO BOLAÑO

This paper analyzes Roberto Bolaño’s Amuleto (1999), and in particular its interest in the cotemporary limits of political resistance. The essay subsequently juxtaposes the novel’s depiction of the massacre at Tlateloco with Carlos Fuentes’ Los 68: Paris, Praga, México (2005), and its use of both a non-fictional memoir of Paris in 1968 and a fictionalized account of Tlateloco. Ultimately, this essay demonstrates how Los 68 attempts to recuperate a kind of subjectivity in which utopian imaginaries defined the 1960s, but which Amuleto’s mobilization of allegory reveals as emptied out.