![]() For this reason, in the second part of the work, this evolution is examined in Operación Masacre’s paratexts since they reveal Walsh’s approach to Peronism and give a new meaning to the denunciation of his novel. In 1957 Rodolfo Walsh with Operacin Masacre started a new trend of writing newspaper articles that later received several names (literary journalism. ![]() Specifically, the approach of the left to Peronism generates an attraction in intellectuals who, like Walsh, see in Perón’s doctrine a political resistance against the injustices of the State. ![]() But the complaint does not stay the same throughout the different editions of the book, the evolution of which is in line with other socio-political changes in the country. Six months after these events, Walsh, who was then twenty-nine, was sitting in a caf when a man approached him and said cryptically. The denunciation project based on its production context –Argentina after Revolución Libertadora (1955)– conditions the use of these genres due to their suitability to link fiction and political reality. Operation Massacre is Walsh’s account of the mystery surrounding a botched secret execution of alleged participants in a failed 1956 uprising by supporters of the recently deposed president Juan Domingo Pern. ![]() This paper is divided into two sections in the first, the use of two genres –originally foreign to canonical literature– is analyzed in the novel Operación Masacre (1957) by the Argentine writer Rodolfo Walsh: the so-called “non-fiction” and the police genre. ![]()
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