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Roberto Bolano as World Literature - Literatures as World Literature
Birns Nicholas
"Roberto Bolaano 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 Bolaano'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 Bolaano 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"--
240 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 26, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781501316067 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Pages | 240 |
| Dimensions | 239 × 160 × 22 mm · 501 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Birns, Professor Nicholas (New York University, USA) |
| Editor | De Castro, Professor Juan E. (Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, USA) |
