Roberto Bolaño: His Fiction of History, History of His Fiction

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Chapter 25 - Roberto Bolaño: His Fiction of History, History of His Fiction

from Part III - Beyond Chileanness: Heterogeneity and Transculturation in Canonical and Peripheral Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2021

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Daniel Villa

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Ignacio López-Calvo

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Ignacio López-Calvo: Affiliation:
University of California, Merced

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Literature, at least in Latin America, has not been the same since 1998, when Roberto Bolaño’s Los detectives salvajes (The Savage Detectives) was published, and especially since 2004, with the posthumous publication of 2666. This impact has earned him supporters and critics; thousands on both sides. That is why he is being reread, which suggests that Bolaño, without ever imagining it, ended up becoming what Italo Calvino defined as a classic, an author whose work “has never exhausted all it has to say to its readers” (5).

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Information: A History of Chilean Literature , pp. 520 - 537

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108766616.026 [Opens in a new window]

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