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 Bolano 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, Bolano is an essential writer for the 21st century world. This volume provides a comprehensive mapping of the pivotal contexts, events, stages, and influences shaping Bolano's writing. As the wide-ranging investigations of this volume's 30 distinguished scholars show, Bolano's influence and impact will shape literary cultures worldwide for years to come.
Edited by:
Jonathan B. Monroe (Cornell University New York)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 158mm,
Spine: 28mm
Weight: 700g
ISBN: 9781108835671
ISBN 10: 1108835678
Series: Literature in Context
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 05 January 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Part I. Geographical, Social and Historical Contexts: 1. Mapping Bolano's worlds Jonathan B. Monroe; 2. Chile, 1953-1973 Maria Ines 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 Ruben Gallo; 7. Spain, Europe, 1977-2003 Ana Fernandez-Cebrian; 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 Soldan; 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 Jose Luis Venegas; 17. Poetry I: the ghost that runs through the writing Ruben Medina; 18. Poetry II: parody and the question of history Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott; 19. The novel and the canon Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria; 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 Anibal Gonzalez; 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 Lopez-Calvo; 30. World literature: twenty-first-century legacies Hector Hoyos.
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 Bolano: 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.
