Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-372) and index.
Contents:
Mapping Bolaño's worlds / Jonathan B. Monroe -- Chile, 1953-1973 / María Inés Lagos -- The Pinochet era, 1973-1990 / Michael J. Lazarra -- Dictatorships in the Southern Cone / Ksenija Bilbija -- Mexico City, 1968 / Viviane Mahieux -- Mexico City, Paris, and life versus art / Rubén Gallo -- Spain, Europe, 1977-2003 / Ana Fernández- Ana Fernández-Cebrían Cebrían -- Transatlantic currents : Europe and the Americas / Rory O'Bryen -- France, Spain, 1938 / Juli Highfill -- The Cold War / Patrick Iber Patrick Iber -- After the fall of the wall : 1989-2001 / Edmundo Paz Soldán -- Latin American literature / Ilan Stavans -- French connections / Dominique Jullien -- German and Russian precursors / Thomas O. Beebee -- After the Two 9/11s : Santiago de Chile, 1973, New York, 2001 / Nicholas Birns -- Essays and short stories / José Luis Venegas -- Poetry i : the ghost that runs through the writing / Rubén Medina Rubén Medina -- Poetry ii : parody and the question of history / Sergio Villalobos- Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott Ruminott -- The novel and the canon / Roberto González Echevarría -- Detective fiction / Pablo Piccato -- Journalism, media, mass culture / Tania Gentic -- Criticism and literary history / Ana Del Sarto -- The abomination of literature / Brett Levinson -- Religion and politics / Aníbal González -- Gender and sexuality / Ana Forcinito -- Race and ethnicity / Juan Decastro -- Trauma and collective memory / Ryan F. Long -- Fictions of the avant-gardes / Michelle Clayton -- Love and friendship / Ignacio López- Ignacio López-Calvo -- World literature : twenty-first-century legacies / Héctor Hoyos.
Summary:
"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, 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, he has come to play an integral role in the development of our contemporary imaginary on a global, planetary scale. As the wide-ranging contextual investigations of this volume's twenty-eight distinguished scholars attest, Bolaño's indelible influence and impact will shape literary cultures worldwide for years to come"-- Provided by publisher.
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