Roberto bolano, a less distant star - critical essays.
[Book]
Ignacio Lopez-calvo
Palgrave Macmillan
2015
220 sidor ; 14.2 cm
LITERATURES OF THE AMERICAS
Introduction; Ignacio Lopez-Calvo. Preface: On Roberto Bolano; Siddhartha Deb. PART I: GENERAL OVERVIEWS 1. Writing with The Ghost of Pierre Menard: Authorship, Responsibility and Justice in Roberto Bolano's Distant Star; Rory O'Bryen 2. Roberto Bolano's Flower War: Memory, Melancholy, and Pierre Menard; Ignacio Lopez-Calvo PART II: TWO MAJOR NOVELS 3. 666 Twinned and Told Twice: Roberto Bolano's Double Time Frame in 2666; Margaret Boe Birns 4. Ulysses' Last Voyage: Bolano and the Allegorical Figuration of Hell; Raul Rodriguez Freire 5. Con la cabeza en el abismo: Roberto Bolano's Los detectives salvajes and 2666, Literary Guerrilla, Maquiladora of Death and the Search for the Masterpiece; Martin Camps PART III: SHORT NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES 6. Valjean in The Age of Javert: Roberto Bolano in the Era of Neoliberalism; Nicholas Birns 7. Literature and Proportion in The Insufferable Gaucho; Brett Levinson PART IV: POETRY 8. Performing Disappearance: Heaven and Sky in Roberto Bolano and Raul Zurita; Luis Bague Quilez 9. Bolano's Big Bang: the Writer's Search of a Voice in Antwerp by Roberto Bolano; Enrique Salas-Durazo