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With the 2014 publication of Uruguayan journalist Leonardo Haberkorn’s book, _Liberaij: La verdadera historia del caso_ Plata quemada, scholars and critics must take another look at Piglia’s extraordinary 1997 novel in light of Haberkorn’s intention to reveal “the truth” of the details behind the novel’s story. This study explores the implications of Piglia’s fictionalization of the historical events, focusing specifically on the author’s decision to invent a homoerotic relationship between the two main characters —a decision that provides a key to understanding his highly complex and artistically daring version of “fake news” inspired by the events that took place in Buenos Aires and Montevideo in 1965. The invention of a queer relationship serves a powerful structural purpose in the novel. By means of this relationship, Piglia is able to join together two principle themes: his politically revolutionary message, as illustrated by the robbery and the spectacular scene when the characters burn the stolen money, and his socially revolutionary message that the love between two men can be imagined as equally emotionally intense and spiritually meaningful as the love between a man and a woman. And while the title of the novel may highlight the climactic act of rebellious socio-economic nihilism, the entire novel demands a conclusion that culminates in the radically subversive, emotionally charged image of Dorda cradling the dying Brignone, Piglia’s queer pietà.

Neste traballo estúdanse os elementos únicos do alemán actual. Estas palabras tamén se coñecen como unikale Komponenten, Unikalia, phraseologisch gebundene Einheiten en alemán e palabras diacríticas, palabras idiomáticas, compoñentes ligados fraseoloxicamente en castelán. Son palabras sen autonomía sintáctica que unicamente aparecen dentro de unidades fraseolóxicas (UUFF). Forman un conxunto (relativamente) pechado de palabras. Con todo, trátase dun grupo bastante heteroxéneo e parece que non todas teñen as mesmas restricións das súas posibilidades combinatorias. Neste traballo demóstrase mediante a análise dun corpus lingüístico que, de feito, algunhas palabras deste grupo cumpren perfectamente o criterio de restrición de combinabilidade e, polo tanto, da estabilidade, mentres que outras amosan un comportamento menos restrinxido, algunhas até o punto de comportarse como palabras autónomas. // This paper is dedicated to words known as unikale Elemente (unikale Komponenten, Unikalia, phraseologisch gebundene Einheiten) in German, commonly referred to as hapax legomena, cranberry words, or bound words in English. Such words appear only within phraseological units, not in free syntactic constructions. Though they form a (relatively) restricted and closed group of words, they are also quite heterogeneous: not all of them, it turns out, are restricted to the same degree. This project examined the distribution of cranberry words in a large linguistic corpus. In our results, we show that only some of the words proved to be really “unique” and fixed in a phraseological unit, others enjoy more freedom of combination, and still others seem totally autonomous in their ability to be combined.