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A Latin-American Articulation of the Holocaust in Jorge Volpi's Oscuro bosque oscuro

I demonstrate in this article that Jorge Volpi's novel Oscuro bosque oscuro takes part in the global conversation about the meaning of the Holocaust by engaging in one of the major contemporary debates in Holocaust studies. I find that this Latin-American appropriation of the topos of the Holocaust does not privilege a Eurocentric, colonial view of world history nor does it trivialize the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Rather, it adds to the body of Holocaust fictional narratives by preserving memory and combating the recurrence of the Nazi spirit through the fictionalization of Holocaust historiography and the use of fairy tales. Latin American narratives at the turn of the Millennium that appropriate the topos of the Holocaust such as Oscuro bosque oscuro are products of their specific historical place and thus raise awareness of the role of state terror in the massacres of the twentieth century in Latin America.