Laura Restrepo in conversation with Mariana Inés Tezón

The rebellion against the violence of totalitarian power in Soy la daga, soy la herida, the most recent novel by Laura Restrepo, is so explicit that the critics have christened her style brutal noir: a fusion of the classic noir novel style with a crude violence, personified in Misericordia Dagger, a methodical executioner in the service of the god Abismo, who begins to question his acts. Restrepo creates a brutal tragicomedy that parodies our delirious epoch and its moral dilemmas.