Roberto Bolaño as World Literature

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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. Cover Contents List of Contributors Introduction: Fractured Masterpieces Part One Bolaño and World History 1 On Fascism, History, and Evil in Roberto Bolaño 2 “More Culture!”: The Rules of Art in Roberto Bolaño’s By Night in Chile 3 Politics and Ethics in Latin America: On Roberto Bolaño 4 The Repolitization of the Latin American Shore: Roberto Bolaño and the Dispersion of “World Literature” Part Two Bolaño’s Literary Worlds 5 Bolaño, Ethics, and the Experts 6 Considerations on the Real and Reality in Juan Luis Martínez’s La nueva novela and in Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives 7 Global Bolaño: Reading, Writing, and Publishing in a Neoliberal World Part Three Bolaño’s Global Readers 8 Mocking World Literature and Canon Parodies in Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction 9 On Depoliticized Politics: Roberto Bolaño’s Reception in China 10 Black Dawn: Roberto Bolaño as (North) American Writer 11 Roberto Bolaño and the Remapping of World Literature Index