Understanding Roberto Bolaño / Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gutiérrez Mouat, Ricardo, author.

Series:

Understanding modern European and Latin American literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003--Criticism and interpretation.

Bolaño, Roberto.

Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvii, 238 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2016]

Summary:

"In Understanding Roberto Bolaño, Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat offers a comprehensive analysis of this critically acclaimed Chilean poet and novelist whose work brought global attention to Latin American literature in the 1960s unseen since the rise of García Márquez and magic realism. Best known for The Savage Detectives, winner of the Rómulo Gallegos Prize; the novella By Night in Chile; and the posthumously published novel 2666, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bolaño died in 2003 just as his reputation was becoming established. After a brief biographical sketch, Gutiérrez-Mouat chronologically contextualizes literary interpretations of Bolaño's work in terms of his life, cultural background, and political ideals. Gutiérrez-Mouat explains Bolaño's work to an English-speaking audience--including his relatively neglected poetry--and conveys a sense of where Bolaño fits in the Latin American tradition. Since his death, eleven of novels, four short story collections, and three poetry collections have been translated into English. The afterword addresses Bolaño's status as a Latin American writer, as the former literary editor of El País claimed, "neither magical realist, nor baroque nor localist, but [creator of] an imaginary, extraterritorial mirror of Latin America, more as a kind of state of mind than a specific place.""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Bolaño's Life and Works 1

2 Bolaño the Poet 16

3 The Turn to Fiction: Bolaño's Early Novels (1981-93) 40

4 Siamese Twins: Nazi Literature in the Americas and Distant Star 61

5 Bolaño's Breakthrough: The Savage Detectives 88

6 Two Dramatic Monologues: Amulet and By Night in Chile 108

7 The Stones and a Short Lumpen Novel 134

8 2666: Bolaño's Global Novel 165.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Gutiérrez Mouat, Ricardo, author. Understanding Roberto Bolaño

ISBN:

9781611176483

1611176484

OCLC:

927379978

Publisher Number:

99969943311