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La Modernidad Insufrible: Roberto Bolaño En Los Límites de la Literatura Latinoamericana Contemporánea

La Modernidad Insufrible: Roberto Bolaño En Los Límites de la Literatura Latinoamericana Contemporánea

Zavala, Oswaldo

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Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatu, Book 305

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1469627159
ISBN13: 9781469627151
Publisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies
Published: Feb 1 2016
Pages: 268
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.79 Depth: 9.09
Language: Spanish
Has Chilean author Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) written the final word on Latin America's insufferable modernity? This investigation asserts that Bolaño's novels, short stories, poetry and essays examine to a point of exhaustion the most important aspects of Latin America's modern literary tradition. Bolaño's critique of modernity as a violent historical condition is a radical mode of literary articulation. With it, the current models of criticism--world literature, the global novel, postcolonial and transatlantic studies--are undermined, while the very notions of margin and center are ultimately disolved. Oswaldo Zavala contends that Bolaño deliberately dismantles the symbolic capital of the Western literary tradition by generating a counterhegemonic horizon of meaning that arises from and defines Latin American writing. The book offers innovative readings of Distant Star, By Night in Chile, The Savage Detectives, Last Evenings on Earth and 2666, among other works. It ultimately demonstrates that Bolaño transcends the neoliberal dream of a global consciousness by revealing the discontinuous, contingent and savage reality of our pernicious modernity. Bolaño forges the most urgent critique of 21st century Latin American and Western literature alike.

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