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We will examine and stress-test writings that graphically breach and exploit established literary discourses in direct or indirect reference to unbound self-consciousness. This mode of textual introspection struggles against false consciousness as a form of self-absorbed torture (matching routine practices by the dictorships that rule over any sense of actuality in these novels). Textual imprisonment (often hyper-sexualized) escapes and humiliates these otherwise triumphantly gendered writers. Diamela Eltit, Lumpérica (1983); José Donoso, La desesperanza (1986); Néstor Perlongher, O negocio do miché. Prostitução viril em Sao Paulo (1987), La prostitución masculina (1993) or El negocio del deseo (1999); Mario Vargas Llosa, El paraíso en la otra esquina (2003); Laura Restrepo, Delirio (2004). In each case, aspects of dictatorship as specific South American despotism should loudly impact our discussions.