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Claire Pailler, « La violence du bâtard dans deux romans d’Amérique centrale », Caravelle, ID : 10.4000/caravelle.882
Born of unknown parents and left in the streets, or born of a peasant woman raped by the landlord’s son - the bastard is, according to Carlos Fuentes, an emblematic figure of the conquest of America; he carries a history of violence. By resorting to that violence himself, and perpetuating it within the family circle, the bastard, a central character in the two Central American novels studied here, seems the embodiment of a society based on injustice.