Roberto Bolaño as world literature

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Label

Roberto Bolaño as world literature

Statement of responsibility

edited by Nicholas Birns and Juan E. De Castro

Contributor

• Birns, Nicholas
• De Castro, Juan E., 1959-

Editor

• Birns, Nicholas
• De Castro, Juan E., 1959-

Subject

• Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003
• Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003 -- Influence
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"Roberto Bolaño as World Literature provides an introduction to the Chilean novelist that highlights his connections with classic and contemporary masters of world literature and his investigation of topics of international interest, such as the rise of rightwing and neofascist movements during the last decades of the 20th century. But this anthology also shows how Roberto Bolaño's participation in world literature is informed in his experiences, identity, and, more generally, cultural location as a Chilean, Latin American and, more generally, Hispanic writer and man. This book provides a corrective to readings of his novels as exclusively "postmodern" or as unproblematically representative of Chilean or Latin American reality. Roberto Bolaño as World Literature thus helps readers to better understand such complex works as his monumental global five-part masterpiece 2666, his Chilean novels (Distant Star, By Night in Chile), and his Mexican narratives (Amulet, The Savage Detectives), among other works"--

Member of

• Literatures as world literature

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

863/.64

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PQ8098.12.O38

LC item number

Z8 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Literatures as world literature