Reproducciones de la violencia fronteriza en La balada de los arcos dorados de César Silva Márquez

Abstract

Violence in Mexican cities that border the United States is a multi-headed monster; these, in turn, do not obey precisely their actors, but their manifestations: denial, adaptation, reification and dehumanization are some of them. This is the last violence experienced in Latin America before going to the gringo´s hands; and it seems that being the last time that it is manifested "on this side," it decided to be the most brutal, the most entrenched and the most widespread. Its reproduction acquires a peculiar tone in The Ballad of the Golden Arches. Through this novel, the writer César Silva Márquez, from Ciudad Juárez, puts us face to face with a panorama that, although it has some hopelessness, forces us to prejudice aside and let ourselves be carried away by the way of referring a violence that does not depend of the activities of a specific border society, but conditions them.