Non-fiction literature and the judicial discourse: do procedural narratives tolerate open endings?

Authors

  • Alícia Ruiz Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21119/anamps.32.333-347

Keywords:

fiction and truth, open end, judge narrator, non-fiction literature, the trial as a game.

Abstract

The reading of R. Walsh’s Massacre Operation – the masterpiece of nonfiction literature in Argentina – prompts the question about the possibility of procedural narratives admitting an open end. The concept of “open end”, a category derived from literary analysis, is used to reflect on the judicial discourse and its rules; to mark some similarities between the judge, the journalist and the writer, conceived as narrators; to problematize the contingency of the truth that is told and, finally, to investigate the intersection between politics, history and law.

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Author Biography

Alícia Ruiz, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)

Profesora Titular Regular de Teoría General y Filosofia del Derecho de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Jueza del Tribunal Superior de Justicia de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Coordinadora de la Oficina de Género del Tribunal Superior de Justicia de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires.

References

FIGUERAS, Marcelo. El negro corazón del crimen. Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 2017.

FOUCAULT, Michel. Obrar mal, decir la verdad: La función de la confesión en la justicia. Buenos Aires: Editorial Siglo XXI, 2014.

LINK, Daniel. Leyendo «Operación Masacre». Disponible en: <https://www.clubensayos.com/Informes-de-Libros/Leyendo-Operaci%C3%B3n-Masacre/117843.html>. Acceso em: 25 Sept. 2017.

MARÍ, Enrique. Papeles de filosofía. Buenos Aires: Biblos, 1993.

PIGLIA, Ricardo. Las tres vanguardias: Saer, Puig, Walsh. Buenos Aires: Eterna Cadencia, 2016.

WALSH, Rodolfo. Operación masacre. Buenos Aires: Ediciones de la Flor, 1972.

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Published

2017-12-30

How to Cite

RUIZ, Alícia. Non-fiction literature and the judicial discourse: do procedural narratives tolerate open endings?. ANAMORPHOSIS - International Journal of Law and Literature, Porto Alegre, v. 3, n. 2, p. 333–347, 2017. DOI: 10.21119/anamps.32.333-347. Disponível em: https://periodicos.rdl.org.br/anamps/article/view/408. Acesso em: 17 aug. 2026.

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2017): julho-dezembro

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