LA REELABORACIÓN DEL TRAUMA A TRAVÉS DEL ARCHIVO EN ‘EL MATERIAL HUMANO’ DE RODRIGO REY ROSA Y ‘LA ISLA’ DE ULI STELZNER

[Autom. eng. transl.] In 2005 an explosion in an old building of the Mariscal Zavala Military Brigade in Guatemala City announced the existence of a secret archive of the Guatemalan National Police. The contact with the archive and the cataloging work that began after its discovery fueled the trauma caused by the military repression of the 1960s and 1980s and encouraged its reworking through art. The objective of this study is, therefore, to identify the elements that both Rodrigo Rey Rosa's novel Human material and the documentary La Isla. Archives of a tragedy by Uli Stelzner are used to describe contact with the archive - and specifically the contact with a violent historical past - and the reconstruction of collective identity. In particular, the elements of similarity and the differences between the two critical perspectives will be studied, highlighting the evolution that leads the public to focus on a personal and intimate perspective, in which the uneasiness caused by the existence of the archive is clearly described.