Abstract

[Neither flesh nor bone: forms of fiction in law. Ficciones de la ley by raúl rodríguez freire as a paradigm shift in literary and legal studies] In 2022, raúl rodríguez freire published Ficciones de la ley, a pioneering book which, before addressing the links between law and literature, examined the relationship between fiction and law from the perspective of literary studies. In Italy, Franco Todescan’s Diritto e realtà. Storia e teoria della fictio iuris (1979) stands out, proposing a historical-theoretical approach to the role of fiction in law from the perspective of legal sciences. Rodríguez freire’s contribution goes far beyond the US Law and Literature movement and problematizes the status of the imagination of law as if it were the literary imagination of works such as Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, and Heinrich von Kleist’s Michael Kolhaas. This article reflects on the critical innovations of the Chilean scholar’s work.