Abstract

Some novels of the last decade give an account of the historical and political background of the dictatorships and post-dictatorships of Chile and Argentina. These are poetics that expose the so-ciopolitical vileness using violence and the per-sistence of evil by hegemonic powers in full de-mocracy in these countries. Based on the above, this article examines the novels Tierra Amarilla (2014) by Germán Marín and Nuestra parte de noche (2019) by Mariana Enríquez as expressions of a process of degradation of the characters from the physical to the mental level, from the actions of agents of evil —humans and metaphysical forces— in corrupted societies and ruinous landscapes, in which the resource of myth appears as a geopoliti-cal strategy of said agents to maintain and validate their hegemonic power, provoking an unpredict-able and unstable character in the characters when they advance to a ruinous terminal state, that is, to a corrosive condition of toxic residues that causes damage through passive action of criminal com-plicity in Tierra Amarilla, and active action perpe-trated through violence in Nuestra parte de noche.