Alejandro Zambra and Recent Chilean Narrative

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Chapter 26 - Alejandro Zambra and Recent Chilean Narrative

From the Political to Autobiografiction

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

Will H. Corral

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Ignacio López-Calvo

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

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It is worthwhile probing why Alejandro Zambra’s revisionist prose – with its ponderous ideas and conceptual reach, semantic reconstructions, dissemination in various media, apolitical timeliness, and relations to motley literary caretakers – is repeatedly accepted, mentioned, quoted, and cherished in worldwide interpretative communities as one of the most innovative younger writers today.

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Information: A History of Chilean Literature , pp. 538 - 557

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108766616.027 [Opens in a new window]

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