Abstract
The aim of this article is to analyze the transition from the political comprehension of the Hispanic-American Literature on the ’80 to another paradigm that involves specific changes on the functions and characteristics of the literary discourse due to the Latin-American democratization and the strengthening of the mass culture. For this aim, will be done references to the exile representations on Respiración artificial by Ricardo Piglia; Loco afán. Crónicas de sidario by Pedro Lemebel, and 2666 and the short story “El Ojo Silva” by Roberto Bolaño.
Key words:
exile; Lemebel; Bolaño; Piglia