Roberto Bolao as World Literature [Paperback]

Roberto Bola?o as World Literatureprovides 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 Bola?o'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 Bola?o as World Literaturethus helps readers to better understand such complex works as his monumental global five-part masterpiece2666, his Chilean novels (Distant Star,By Night in Chile), and his Mexican narratives (Amulet,The Savage Detectives), among other works.

Introduction: Fractured Masterpieces
Nicholas Birns (College of New Rochelle, USA)and Juan E De Castro (Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, USA)
I. Bola?o and World History
1. On Fascism, history and evil in Roberto Bola?o
Federico Finchelstein (The New School, USA)
2. More Culture!: The Rules of Art in Roberto Bola?o'sBy Night in Chile
Thomas Beebee (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
3. Politics and Ethics in Latin America: On Roberto Bola?o
Juan E. De Castro (The New School,USA)
4. The Repolitization of the Latin American Shore: Roberto Bola?o and the Dispersion of World Literature
Oswaldo Zavala (City University of New York, USA)
II. Bola?o's Literary Worlds
5. Bola?o, Ethics, and the Experts
Will H. Corral (Independent Scholar)
6. Considerations on the Real and Reality lÃv