El Chacal de Nahueltoro: Bisagra y pacto criminal en el cine y literatura en Chile

This article proposes the hypothesis that the film El Chacal de Nahueltoro by Miguel Littín, together with the novel Eloy by Carlos Droguett, works as a hinge between former works (both literary and filmic) whose protagonist is a criminal, and other, more modern and known works such as Criminal by Jaime Pinos and Tony Manero by Pablo Larraín. The author argues that the presence of a criminal tradition in literature and film in Chile, with bandits and murderers, shows a way of agreement (via Hobsbawm and Foucault) between this individual and the law, regulation, the system, and the State.