The anti-militarist novel by the great author from Córdoba, kidnapped by the dictatorship at the time of its publication. Ironic and implacable, this work is a hilarious dissection of the ideology of authoritarianism through the observations of a colimba who seduces the wife of a General who is a coup leader.
“Vil & Vil is a strong social allegory, taking data and examples from reality. A complex novel, rare for its structure, which has three levels: a military one, of laconic conversation, of dry, spartan style. Another level, that of the recapacitation (analysis) that the assistant (conscript) makes when writing his diary; and finally the one that concerns the general’s public life, his relationship with his family and his family’s relationship with the conscript. The police seized it, and with the government of Raúl Alfonsín we recovered the edition. Now, when I hand it out, people rave about it. It was published a year before the process, in 1975, in the middle of the Peronist period”. Juan Filloy (interview by Mónica Ambort, in Juan Filloy. El escritor escondido, Aguilar, 2000)
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