LA VUELTA DEL PADRE Y OTRAS APARICIONES: FANTASMAGORÍAS DE UN PAISAJE EN GEOLOGÍA DE UN PLANETA DESIERTO DE PATRICIO JARA

Geología planeta fantasmagoría neoliberalismo. Abstract. Geología de un planeta desierto (2013) by Patricio Jara is a novel that starts with the appearance of the ghost of Rodrigo's father in front of his apartment. The invitation that the father makes to his son to go out for a walk and the consequent journey that both make through the city of Antofagasta will allow the enunciation of a ghostly landscape as a result of the encounter that the narrator maintains with the space he inhabits, a space whose nooks and crannies will give off a spectral trail caused by the act of remembering. These elements will account for the ruins and the series of human remains that neoliberalism leave behind at the hands of the mining industry in the northern territories of Chile, which operate as transcripts of the father's both life, and death.