Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star [electronic resource] : Critical Essays /
López-Calvo, I.editor.
Roberto Bolaño has attained an almost mythical stature and is often considered the most influential Latin American writer of his generation. The first English-language volume of essays on the Chilean author, Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star: Critical Essays, includes ten critical essays of his oeuvre. With a special emphasis on his masterpieces: 2666, The Savage Detectives, By Night in Chile, and Distant Star, the essays address topics such as Borges's influence and the role of repetition, social memory, allegory, and neoliberalism.
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Roberto Bolaño has attained an almost mythical stature and is often considered the most influential Latin American writer of his generation. The first English-language volume of essays on the Chilean author, Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star: Critical Essays, includes ten critical essays of his oeuvre. With a special emphasis on his masterpieces: 2666, The Savage Detectives, By Night in Chile, and Distant Star, the essays address topics such as Borges's influence and the role of repetition, social memory, allegory, and neoliberalism.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction; Ignacio López-Calvo. Preface: On Roberto Bolaño; Siddhartha Deb. PART I: GENERAL OVERVIEWS1. Writing with The Ghost of Pierre Menard: Authorship, Responsibility and Justice in Roberto Bolaño's Distant Star; Rory O'Bryen2. Roberto Bolaño's Flower War: Memory, Melancholy, and Pierre Menard; Ignacio López-CalvoPART II: TWO MAJOR NOVELS3. 666 Twinned and Told Twice: Roberto Bolaño's Double Time Frame in 2666; Margaret Boe Birns4. Ulysses' Last Voyage: Bolaño and the Allegorical Figuration of Hell; Raúl Rodríguez Freire5. Con la cabeza en el abismo: Roberto Bolaño's Los detectives salvajes and 2666, Literary Guerrilla, Maquiladora of Death and the Search for the Masterpiece; Marti;n CampsPART III: SHORT NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES6. Valjean in The Age of Javert: Roberto Bolaño in the Era of Neoliberalism; Nicholas Birns 7. Literature and Proportion in The Insufferable Gaucho; Brett LevinsonPART IV: POETRY8. Performing Disappearance: Heaven and Sky in Roberto Bolaño and Raúl Zurita; Luis Bague; Qui;lez9. Bolaño's Big Bang: the Writer's Search of a Voice in Antwerp by Roberto Bolaño; Enrique Salas-Durazo.
Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003
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Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—History and criticism.
Poetry.
America—Literatures.
Ethnology—Latin America.
Fiction.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary History.
Poetry and Poetics.
North American Literature.
Latin American Culture.