El arte de la política/ la política del arte: Semprún y Padura ante el asesinato de Trotsky

Abstract

The article analyzes the structural framework between aesthetics and politics in stories that revolve around an historical event: the death of Trotsky. The second death of Ramon Mercader, by Jorge Semprún; The man who loved dogs, by Leonardo Padura, and the section "La muerte de Trostsky referida por varios escritores cubanos, años después-o antes-", that belongs to Three Trapped Tigers by Cabrera Infante. Despite the diversity of aesthetic visions (different relationships with referentiality and dissimilar formal projects), the texts seem to have political and ideological coincidences, and in all of them the disenchantment concludes the political utopias.