Los afectos de la memoria: Familia, Memoria y Nación en la novela contemporánea boliviana.

This article proposes an analysis of Rodrigo Hasbún's 2015 novel, Los afectos, that sheds light on new forms of giving meaning to reality in the contemporary Bolivian novel. Based on a hypothesis that identifies the narrative strategies the novel uses to fictionalize family memory and national history, I argue that Los afectos explores new connections between aesthetics and politics. Although Hasbún's novel draws attention for its polyphonic structure and plurality of modes of enunciation from which the different narrators position themselves, this innovative proposal is limited by narrative mechanisms that impose forms of control over fictionalized memory, closing any possibility to imagine new relationships between history, memory, and narration. The novel does, however, leave open the possibility that, thinking from an affective point of view, more democratic ways of building shared memories may emerge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]