Understanding Roberto Bolano
Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat, James Hardin
- 248 pages
- English
- ePUB (adapté aux mobiles)
- Disponible sur iOS et Android
Understanding Roberto Bolano
Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat, James Hardin
Ă propos de ce livre
An examination of the novels, short story collections, and poetry of the Latin American author
In Understanding Roberto Bolaño, Ricardo GutiĂ©rrez-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 GarcĂa MĂĄrquez and magic realism. Best known for The Savage Detectives, winner of the RĂłmulo 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, GutiĂ©rrez-Mouat chronologically contextualizes literary interpretations of Bolaño's work in terms of his life, cultural background, and political ideals. GutiĂ©rrez-Mouat explains Bolaño's work to an English-speaking audienceâincluding his relatively neglected poetryâand 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 PaĂs 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."