Roberto Bolaño as World Literature by Birns, Nicholas

Roberto Bolaño as World Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781501316067)

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Format: Hardcover
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Roberto Bolaño as World Literature by Birns, Nicholas

Roberto Bolaño as World Literature

$160.00
Roberto Bolaño as World Literature by Birns, Nicholas

Roberto Bolaño as World Literature

$160.00
Format: Hardcover
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Roberto Bolaño as World Literature provides an introduction to the Chilean novelist that highlights his connections with classic and contemporary masters of world literature and his investigation of topics of international interest, such as the rise of rightwing and neofascist movements during the last decades of the 20th century. But this anthology also shows how Roberto Bolaño's participation in world literature is informed in his experiences, identity, and, more generally, cultural location as a Chilean, Latin American and, more generally, Hispanic writer and man. This book provides a corrective to readings of his novels as exclusively "postmodern" or as unproblematically representative of Chilean or Latin American reality. Roberto Bolaño as World Literature thus helps readers to better understand such complex works as his monumental global five-part masterpiece 2666, his Chilean novels (Distant Star, By Night in Chile), and his Mexican narratives (Amulet, The Savage Detectives), among other works.

Author: Nicholas Birns
ISBN-10: 1501316060
ISBN-13: 9781501316067
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 01/26/2017
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2017
By Nicholas Birns
By Nicholas Birns
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Nicholas Birns is Associate Professor at New York University, USA. His books include The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel (co-edited, 2013) and Theory After Theory (2010).

Juan E. De Castro is an Associate Professor in Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, New York, USA. He is the author of three books, the most recent of which is Mario Vargas Llosa: Public Intellectual in Neoliberal Latin America (2011). He is the co-editor of The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel (2013).

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