Roberto Bolaño In Context

This book provides an indispensable map to explore the pivotal contexts, shaping events, and enduring concerns of Roberto Bolaño.

Jonathan B. Monroe (Edited by)

9781108835671, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 5 January 2023

400 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 2.8 cm, 0.7 kg

From his first fifteen years in Chile, to his nine years in Mexico City from 1968 to 1977, to the quarter of a century he lived and worked in the Blanes-Barcelona area on the Costa Brava in Spain through his death in 2003, Roberto Bolaño developed into an astonishingly diverse, prolific writer. He is one of the most consequential and widely read of his generation in any language. Increasingly recognized not only in Latin America, but as a major figure in World Literature, Bolaño is an essential writer for the 21st century world. This volume provides a comprehensive mapping of the pivotal contexts, events, stages, and influences shaping Bolaño's writing. As the wide-ranging investigations of this volume's 30 distinguished scholars show, Bolaño's influence and impact will shape literary cultures worldwide for years to come.

Part I. Geographical, Social and Historical Contexts: 1. Mapping Bolaño's worlds Jonathan B. Monroe
2. Chile, 1953–1973 María Inés Lagos
3. The Pinochet era, 1973–1990 Michael J. Lazarra
4. Dictatorships in the Southern Cone Ksenija Bilbija
5. Mexico City, 1968 Viviane Mahieux
6. Mexico City, Paris, and life versus art Rubén Gallo
7. Spain, Europe, 1977–2003 Ana Fernández-Cebrían
8. Transatlantic currents: Europe and the Americas Rory O'Bryen
Part II. Shaping Events and Literary History: 9. France, Spain, 1938 Juli Highfill
10. The Cold War Patrick Iber
11. After the fall of the wall: 1989–2001 Edmundo Paz Soldán
12. Latin American literature Ilan Stavans
13. French connections Dominique Jullien
14. German and Russian precursors Thomas O. Beebee
15. After the two 9/11s: Santiago de Chile, 1973, New York, 2001 Nicholas Birns
Part III: Genres, Discourses, Media: 16. Essays and short stories José Luis Venegas
17. Poetry I: the ghost that runs through the writing Rubén Medina
18. Poetry II: parody and the question of history Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott
19. The novel and the canon Roberto González Echevarría
20. Detective fiction Pablo Piccato
21. Journalism, media, mass culture Tania Gentic
22. Literary criticism and literary history Ana Del Sarto
Part IV. Aesthetics, Culture, and Politics: 23. The abomination of literature Brett Levinson
24. Religion and politics Aníbal González
25. Gender and sexuality Ana Forcinito
26. Race and ethnicity Juan Decastro
27. Trauma and collective memory Ryan F. Long
28. Fictions of the avant-gardes Michelle Clayton
29. Love and friendship Ignacio López-Calvo
30. World literature: twenty-first-century legacies Héctor Hoyos.

Subject Areas: Literary reference works [DSR], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Literary studies: general [DSB]