Militant Emotions in Reina Roffé’s Monte de Venus

This article analyses the role of emotions in the formation of militant groups as represented in the novel Monte de Venus (1976) by Reina Roffé. It draws comparisons between the novel’s backdrop of Argentina’s militant movements of the 1960s and ’70s and the actual militancy in the country from that time period. This approach to emotions in literature focuses on the fictionalisation of character emotions and its role in the production of the overall tone of the novel. An important aspect of the study is the genre of the militant literature in Argentina in the mid-twentieth century and its aesthetic and ideological norms.