Framing Roberto Bolaño : poetry, fiction, literary history, politics / Jonathan Beck Monroe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Monroe, Jonathan, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Bolaño, Roberto.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 253 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Poetry, fiction, literary history, and politics. These four cornerstone concerns of Roberto Bolaño's work have established him as a representative, generational figure in not only Chile, Mexico, and Spain, the three principal locations of his life and work, but throughout Europe and the Americas, increasingly on a global scale. At the heart of Bolaño's 'poemas-novela', his poet- and poetry-centered novels, is the history and legacy of the prose poem. Challenging the policing of boundaries between verse and prose, poetry and fiction, the literary and the non-literary, the aesthetic and the political, his prose poem novels offer a sustained literary history by other means, a pivotal intervention that restores poetry and literature to full capacity. Framing Roberto Bolaño is one of the first books to trace the full arc and development of Bolaño's work from the beginning to the end of his career.

Contents:

Introduction : unpacking Bolano's library

"Undisciplined writing"

Poetry as symptom and cure

The novel's regimes made visible

Poetry at the ends of its lines

Post-avant histories

Dismantling narrative drive

Making visible the "non-power" of poetry

Poetry, politics, critique

Literary taxonomies after the wall

"What a relief to give up literature"

Conclusion : from the known to the unknown university.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Sep 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-62712-9

1-108-65845-8

1-108-63347-1