By I. López-Calvo
Roberto Bolaño is taken into account probably the most influential Latin American writers of his iteration. the 1st English-language quantity at the Chilean writer, essays tackle such subject matters as Borges's impression, social reminiscence, allegory, and neoliberalism and speak about works like 2666 , The Savage Detectives , and far away famous person .
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Paris: Grasset and Fasquelle, 2007. Print. Bolaño, Roberto. Distant Star. Trans. C. Andrews. London: Harvill Press, 2004. Print. ———. Nazi Literature in the Americas. Trans. C. Andrews. London: Picador, 2010. Print. Boldy, Steven. A Companion to Borges. Woodbury: Boydell and Brewer, 2009. Print. Borges, Jorge Luis. Discusión. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1995. Print. ———. Ficciones. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1996. Print. ———. A Universal History of Iniquity. Trans. with an afterword by Andrew Hurley.
Print. ———. Between Parentheses. Essays, Articles, and Speeches (1998–2003). Ed. Ignacio Echevarría. Trans. Natasha Wimmer. New York: New Directions, 2011. Print. ———. Los detectives salvajes. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2008. Print. ———. Entre paréntesis. Ensayos, artículos y discursos (1998–2003). Ed. Ignacio Echevarría. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2004. Print. ———. Estrella distante. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1996. Print. ———. El gaucho insufrible. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2003. Print. ———. Last Evenings on Earth.
Wieder’s “ANTARTICA IS CHILE” (45) likewise points to the avanzada’s potential to be reinscribed in state claims to territorial political sovereignty. Indeed, W R I T I N G W I T H T H E G H O S T O F P I E R R E M EN A R D 27 nearly all of Wieder’s acts point to an uncanny specularity between CADA’s avant-garde “insubordination of the sign” and the fascist state’s “avant-garde” anti-institutionalism. Bolaño’s Menardian rereading of the Chilean neoavant-garde thus underscores the latter’s complicity with the dictatorship and its neoliberal legacies—its participation, in the terms of Gareth Williams (citing Willy Thayer), in the coup’s de facto “suspension of all law and political representation” (“Sovereignty and Melancholic Paralysis” 135).