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| | Table of Contents and Excerpt, González, Killer Books |
 | | The texts by Nájera, Zeno, and de la Parra examined in the following chapters also display a mixture of guilt and resignation towards writing: guilt about the violence of their scriptural origins and resignation to the seeming inevitability of that violence. |
 | | At the risk of repeating myself, I would strongly caution readers not to regard the transition posited here from "abuses" to "admonitions" as a dichotomy in which Nájera, Zeno, and de la Parra would be the exponents of scriptural abuse and Borges, Carpentier, and Cortázar the apostles of scriptural asceticism. |
 | | Strictly speaking, "abusive" texts would be those that displayed no awareness of the ethical problematics of writing, and this is decidedly not the case with the writings of Nájera, Zeno, and de la Parra. |
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