Framing Roberto Bola?o: Poetry, Fiction, Literary History, Politics [Paperback]

Traces the development of Roberto Bola?o's work from the beginning to the end of his career.This is one of the first books to trace the development of Roberto Bola?o's work from the beginning to the end of his career. It will appeal to graduates and researchers working on Bola?o and Latin American Literature generally, particularly the novel, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature.This is one of the first books to trace the development of Roberto Bola?o's work from the beginning to the end of his career. It will appeal to graduates and researchers working on Bola?o and Latin American Literature generally, particularly the novel, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature.Poetry, fiction, literary history, and politics. These four cornerstone concerns of Roberto Bola?o's work have established him as a representative, generational figure in not only Chile, Mexico, and Spain, the three principal locations of his life and work, but throughout Europe and the Americas, increasingly on a global scale. At the heart of Bola?o's 'poemas-novela', his poet- and poetry-centered novels, is the history and legacy of the prose poem. Challenging the policing of boundaries between verse and prose, poetry and fiction, the literary and the non-literary, the aesthetic and the political, his prose poem novels offer a sustained literary history by other means, a pivotal intervention that restores poetry and literature to full capacity. Framing Roberto Bola?o is one of the first books to trace the full arc and development of Bola?o's work from the beginning to the end of his career.Introduction: unpacking Bola?o's library; Part I: 1. 'Undisciplined writing' Antwerp (Amberes); 2. Poetry as symptom and cure Monsieur Pain; 3. The novel's regimes made visible in the Third Reich (El Tercer Reich); Part II: 4. Poetry at the ends of its lines the unknown university (La universidad desconocida) Nazi literature in the Americas (La literatura nazi en Am?rica); 5. Post-avant histolƒ(