Postmodernism Of Resistance In Roberto Bolanos Fiction And Poetry

Author : J. Agustín Pastén B.
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826361870
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism of Resistance in Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction and Poetry written by J. Agustín Pastén B. and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodernism of Resistance in Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction and Poetry examines the ways in which Bolaño employs a type of literary aesthetics that subverts traits traditionally associated with postmodernism. Pastén B. coins these aesthetics “postmodernism of resistance” and argues that this resistance stands in direct opposition to critical discourses that construe the presence of hopeless characters and marginal settings in Bolaño’s works as signs of the writer’s disillusionment with the political as a consequence of the defeat of the Left in Latin America. Rather, he contends, Bolaño creates a fictional world comprised of characters and situations that paradoxically refuse to accept defeat—even while displaying the scars of terrible historical events. In this work Pastén B. challenges some critical assumptions about Bolaño’s fiction and poetry that led to decontextualized interpretations of his work and offers a singularly comprehensive investigation that synthesizes multiple perspectives of a complicated author into one text.

Author : Arnoldas Stramskas
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783659241352
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resistance to the Present written by Arnoldas Stramskas and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores productive linkages between social and political criticism and literature. Following the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, it takes a clinical approach, suggesting that literature reflects a kind of diagnosis of the state of the world. The work argues that if literature does not offer propositional, well-defined answers to overtly posed or covertly insinuated problems, this is not therefore a weakness, but a strength. This work concurs with Deleuze and Guattari in asserting that literature is a site of becoming and of lines of flight: resistant practices against imposed order and (self)closure of the subject. The method here eschews a semiotic approach to literature with "what does the work mean?," instead, the clinical approach taken here asks "what does the text do?" Using this approach, the central literary object in this work is author Roberto Bolano, whose two novels--The Savage Detectives and 2666--serve to illustrate literature's vast potential as valuable critique and resistance to the social and political ills of the present."

Author : I. López-Calvo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137492961
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star written by I. López-Calvo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roberto Bolaño has attained an almost mythical stature and is often considered the most influential Latin American writer of his generation. The first English-language volume of essays on the Chilean author, Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star: Critical Essays, includes ten critical essays of his oeuvre. With a special emphasis on his masterpieces: 2666, The Savage Detectives, By Night in Chile, and Distant Star, the essays address topics such as Borges's influence and the role of repetition, social memory, allegory, and neoliberalism.

Author : David Kurnick
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231550650
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Savage Detectives Reread written by David Kurnick and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Savage Detectives elicits mixed feelings. An instant classic in the Spanish-speaking world upon its 1998 publication, a critical and commercial smash on its 2007 translation into English, Roberto Bolaño’s novel has also been called an exercise in 1970s nostalgia, an escapist fantasy of a romanticized Latin America, and a publicity event propped up by the myth of the bad-boy artist. David Kurnick argues that the controversies surrounding Bolaño’s life and work have obscured his achievements—and that The Savage Detectives is still underappreciated for the subtlety and vitality of its portrait of collective life. Kurnick explores The Savage Detectives as an epic of social structure and its decomposition, a novel that restlessly moves between the big configurations—of states, continents, and generations—and the everyday stuff—parties, jobs, moods, sex, conversation—of which they’re made. For Kurnick, Bolaño’s book is a necromantic invocation of life in history, one that demands surrender as much as analysis. Kurnick alternates literary-critical arguments with explorations of the novel’s microclimates and neighborhoods—the little atmospheric zones where some of Bolaño’s most interesting rethinking of sexuality, politics, and literature takes place. He also claims that The Savage Detectives holds particular interest for U.S. readers: not because it panders to them but because it heralds the exhilarating prospect of a world in which American culture has lost its presumptive centrality.

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612190332
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roberto Bolano: The Last Interview written by Roberto Bolaño and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the release of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives in 1998, journalist Monica Maristain discovered a writer “capable of befriending his readers.” After exchanging several letters with Bolaño, Maristain formed a friendship of her own, culminating in an extensive interview with the novelist about truth and consequences, an interview that turned out to be Bolaño’s last. Appearing for the first time in English, Bolaño’s final interview is accompanied by a collection of conversations with reporters stationed throughout Latin America, providing a rich context for the work of the writer who, according to essayist Marcela Valdes, is “a T.S. Eliot or Virginia Woolf of Latin American letters.” As in all of Bolaño’s work, there is also wide-ranging discussion of the author’s many literary influences. (Explanatory notes on authors and titles that may be unfamiliar to English-language readers are included here.) The interviews, all of which were completed during the writing of the gigantic 2666, also address Bolaño’s deepest personal concerns, from his domestic life and two young children to the realities of a fatal disease.

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811216883
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Evenings on Earth written by Roberto Bolaño and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of the "failed generation" set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe.

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466804823
Total Pages : 1053 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 2666 written by Roberto Bolaño and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 1053 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of SantaTeresa—a fictional Juárez—on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811219917
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antwerp (New Directions Pearls) written by Roberto Bolaño and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Antwerp's" signature elements--crimes and campgrounds, drifters and poetry, sex and love, corrupt cops and misfits--mark this, his first novel, as pure Bolao. A elegantly produced, small collectible stamped cover-on-cloth edition.

Author : Jeanne Heuving
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826360467
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inciting Poetics written by Jeanne Heuving and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Inciting Poetics provide provocative answers to the book's opening question, "What are poetics now?" Authored by some of the most important contemporary poets and critics, the essays present new theoretical and practical approaches to poetry and poetics that address current topics and approaches in the field as well as provide fresh readings of a number of canonical poets. The four sections--"What is Poetics?," "Critical Interventions," "Cross-Cultural Imperatives," and "Digital, Capital, and Institutional Frames"--create a basis on which both experienced readers and newcomers can build an understanding of how to think and write about poetry. The diverse voices throughout the collection are both informative and accessible and offer a rich exploration of multiple approaches to thinking and writing about poetry today.

Author : Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611176492
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Roberto Bolaño written by Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Understanding Roberto Bolaño, Ricardo Gutiérrez-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 García Márquez and magic realism. Best known for The Savage Detectives, winner of the Rómulo 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, Gutiérrez-Mouat chronologically contextualizes literary interpretations of Bolaño’s work in terms of his life, cultural background, and political ideals. Gutiérrez-Mouat explains Bolaño’s work to an English-speaking audience—including his relatively neglected poetry—and 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 País 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.”