Full Description
Poetry, fiction, literary history, and politics. These four cornerstone concerns of Roberto Bolaño's work have established him as a representative, generational figure in not only Chile, Mexico, and Spain, the three principal locations of his life and work, but throughout Europe and the Americas, increasingly on a global scale. At the heart of Bolaño's 'poemas-novela', his poet- and poetry-centered novels, is the history and legacy of the prose poem. Challenging the policing of boundaries between verse and prose, poetry and fiction, the literary and the non-literary, the aesthetic and the political, his prose poem novels offer a sustained literary history by other means, a pivotal intervention that restores poetry and literature to full capacity. Framing Roberto Bolaño is one of the first books to trace the full arc and development of Bolaño's work from the beginning to the end of his career.
Contents
Introduction: unpacking Bolaño's library; Part I: 1. 'Undisciplined writing' Antwerp (Amberes); 2. Poetry as symptom and cure Monsieur Pain; 3. The novel's regimes made visible in the Third Reich (El Tercer Reich); Part II: 4. Poetry at the ends of its lines the unknown university (La universidad desconocida) Nazi literature in the Americas (La literatura nazi en América); 5. Post-avant histories distant star (Estrella distante); Part III: 6. Dismantling narrative drive the savage detectives (Los detectives salvajes); 7. Making visible the 'non-power' of poetry Amulet (Amuleto); 8. Poetry, politics, critique by night in Chile (Nocturno de Chile); Part IV: 9. Literary taxonomies after the wall woes of the true policeman (Los sinsabores del verdadero policía); 10. 'What a relief to give up literature' 2666; Conclusion: from the known to the unknown university.
