In the collection of short stories by Roberto Bolano entitled Last evenings on Earth and in the short story Insensibility by Horacio Castellanos Moya, Bolano and Moya demonstrate improbable situations, horror and violence throughout their lives. their stories. In Last Evenings on Earth, Bolano divides his stories into those that are recollections of a writer's time or the tales of a writer named "B." These short stories explore the question of what it means to be an individual devoting their life to artistic expression. In Insensiness by Horacio Castellanos Moya, he talks about a fugitive writer who takes it upon himself to revise the testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the massacres in Guatemala for the Catholic Church. In Moya's novel, he uses the main character to explore the issue of censorship within artistic expression and life itself. Both Bolano and Moya express horror, violence and implausible situations with an emphasis on the poetry itself. With Bolano, this is a recurring theme in which his characters are either poets themselves, or express their love for poetry in the situations in which they find themselves. In Moya, poetry becomes the obsession of the main character, obsessed by the testimonies and voices of the victims. Both Bolano and Moya define a vision of what it means to live in the present with an emphasis on the absurdity of life itself as well as the expression of art. Bolano and Moya delve deeper into the theme of absurdity through the lives of the characters they map. out. In Bolano Gomez Palacio's short story, Bolano does not name the main character himself but instead focuses on the situation the character finds himself in. The main character accepts a job teaching a writing workshop in an "abandoned" ...... middle of paper ...... and contextualizes each, almost creating a contradiction as the beautiful prose becomes limited and constrained. under the watchful eye of the Church itself. It is the absurdity of life itself that inexplicably changes the art, creating a contradiction within itself as the art depicts the absurdity of life and the violence experienced by the victims. Moya and Bolano come to the conclusion that life itself is meaningless; there is no explanation or way to plan life. Instead, one should aim to live in the present and find liberation through the use of art. It is in art that we can truly free ourselves from the limits of society. In Bolano, it is by focusing on the situations in which the characters find themselves that we see the absurdity of life itself. In Gomez Palacio it is the nonsense of a specific phenomenon of a green light in the middle of a desert..