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Roberto Bolaño In Context

Part of Literature in Context

Editor: Jonathan B. Monroe, Cornell University, New York

Jonathan B. Monroe, Maria Ines Lagos, Michael J. Lazarra, Ksenija Bilbija, Viviane Mahieux, Ruben Gallo, Ana Fernandez-Cebrian, Rory O'Bryen, Juli Highfill, Patrick Iber, Edmundo Paz Soldán, Ilan Stavans, Dominique Jullien, Thomas O'Beebee, Nicholas Birns, Jose Luis Venegas, Ruben Medina, Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott, Roberto González Echevarría, Pablo Piccato, Tania Gentic, Ana Del Sarto, Brett Levinson, Aníbal González, Ana Forcinito, Juan Decastro, Ryan F. Long, Michelle Clayton, Ignacio Lopez-Calvo, Hector Hoyos

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Date Published: January 2023
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9781108835671

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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.
- The book offers essays on the entirety of Bolaño's work by 28 distinguished scholars with wide-ranging backgrounds and expertise
- It provides a comprehensive mapping of the pivotal contexts, events, stages, and influences shaping Bolaño's writing from his birth in 1953 to his death in 2003
- It further establishes and consolidates the case for Bolaño as a writer of global importance for the late 20th and early 21st century
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'[An] indispensable volume that situates Bolaño in his historical, cultural and literary context, providing the necessary background to make sense of his life, work and legacy.' Claudio Palomares-Salas, Bulletin of Spanish Studies

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- Date Published: January 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108835671
- length: 400 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 28 mm
- weight: 0.7kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
Editor
Jonathan B. Monroe, Cornell University, New York
Jonathan B. Monroe is Professor of Comparative Literature, and a member of the Graduate Fields of Comparative Literature, English, and Romance Studies, at Cornell University. He is the author of Framing Roberto Bolaño: Poetry, Fiction, Literary History, Politics, also with Cambridge University Press (2019); A Poverty of Objects: The Prose Poem and the Politics of Genre; and Demosthenes' Legacy, a book of prose poems and short fiction. Co-author and editor of Writing and Revising the Disciplines; Local Knowledges, Local Practices: Writing in the Disciplines at Cornell; Poetry Community, Movement (Diacritics), and Poetics of Avant-Garde Poetries (Poetics Today), he has published widely on questions of genre, writing and disciplinary practices, innovative poetries of the past two centuries, and avant-garde movements and their contemporary legacies.
Contributors
Jonathan B. Monroe, Maria Ines Lagos, Michael J. Lazarra, Ksenija Bilbija, Viviane Mahieux, Ruben Gallo, Ana Fernandez-Cebrian, Rory O'Bryen, Juli Highfill, Patrick Iber, Edmundo Paz Soldán, Ilan Stavans, Dominique Jullien, Thomas O'Beebee, Nicholas Birns, Jose Luis Venegas, Ruben Medina, Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott, Roberto González Echevarría, Pablo Piccato, Tania Gentic, Ana Del Sarto, Brett Levinson, Aníbal González, Ana Forcinito, Juan Decastro, Ryan F. Long, Michelle Clayton, Ignacio Lopez-Calvo, Hector Hoyos