Confusion
by (sa) Horacio Castellanos Moya
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A virulent writer flees abroad and inexplicably finds himself hired by a church to edit an 1100-page oral archive. What this file records and reveals is the horrific massacre of local indigenous people by the army ten years ago, and it contains the bloody testimonies of many victims. During the editing process, he continued to be intoxicated by the mellow words in the testimony, which were as mellow as Vallejo poetry. From the victim's self-statement, "I'm missing a piece of my brain," to the lament of relatives, "Those houses, they are sad because there is no one in them...", To the most striking thing, "We all know who the murderer is." His consciousness was gradually swallowed up. Like a lamb heading to the sacrificial site, he fell into delirium due to pathological delusions, until he could no longer distinguish between history and reality, and inevitably identified with both the perpetrator and the victim. Correspondingly, he was also in real danger. After all, the executioners of the Holocaust still rule that nameless Latin American country.
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