Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star: Critical Essays

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Writing with the Ghost of Pierre Menard: Authorship, Responsibility, and Justice in Roberto Bolaño’s Distant Star....Pages 17-34
Roberto Bolaño’s Flower War: Memory, Melancholy, and Pierre Menard....Pages 35-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
666 Twinned and Told Twice: Roberto Bolaño’s Double Time Frame in 2666....Pages 67-83
Ulysses’s Last Voyage: Bolaño and the Allegorical Figuration of Hell....Pages 85-103
“Con la cabeza en el abismo”: Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives and 2666, Literary Guerrilla, and the Maquiladora of Death....Pages 105-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Valjean in the Age of Javert: Roberto Bolaño in the Era of Neoliberalism....Pages 131-148
Literature and Proportion in The Insufferable Gaucho....Pages 149-167
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Performing Disappearance: Heaven and Sky in Roberto Bolaño and Raúl Zurita....Pages 171-188
Roberto Bolaño’s Big Bang: Deciphering the Code of an Aspiring Writer in Antwerp....Pages 189-209
Back Matter....Pages 211-220