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Zusatztext Some of the best essays in this collection are “political,” not in an ideological way but in the sense that they investigate the system underlying world literature. Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Birns is Associate Professor at New York University, USA, where he concentrates in general humanities, fiction in English from 1700 as well as literary theory. His books include Understanding Anthony Powell (2004), the co-edited Companion To Australian Fiction since 1900 (2007). The latter was named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2008. He is also the author of Theory After Theory (2010), Willa Cather: Critical Insights (2011), Barbarian Memory: The Legacy of Early Medieval History in Early Modern Literature (2013), Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead (2015) and Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics (2010 , co-ed. Juan E. de Castro). He has published essays and reviews in The New York Times Book Review, the Australian Literary Review, the Australian Book Review, Arizona Quarterly , and Exemplaria; Studies in Romanticism, Symbiosis, College Literature , and European Romantic Review . Juan E. De Castro is an Associate Professor in Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, New York, USA, where he teaches courses in Latin American, Latino, Peninsular, and Inter-American literature. He has published articles in MLN, Latin American Research Review , and Aztlan , among other journals. He is the author of three books, the most recent of which is Mario Vargas Llosa: Public Intellectual in Neoliberal Latin America (2011). Vorwort Shows how Roberto Bolaño's writings influenced ideas about world literature is as well as, less abstractly, the work and reception of international writers. Zusammenfassung Roberto Bolaño as World Literature provides an introduction to the Chilean novelist that highlights his connections with classic and contemporary masters of world literature and his investigation of topics of international interest, such as the rise of rightwing and neofascist movements during the last decades of the 20th century. But this anthology also shows how Roberto Bolaño's participation in world literature is informed in his experiences, identity, and, more generally, cultural location as a Chilean, Latin American and, more generally, Hispanic writer and man. This book provides a corrective to readings of his novels as exclusively "postmodern" or as unproblematically representative of Chilean or Latin American reality. Roberto Bolaño as World Literature thus helps readers to better understand such complex works as his monumental global five-part masterpiece 2666 , his Chilean novels ( Distant Star , By Night in Chile ), and his Mexican narratives ( Amulet , The Savage Detectives ), among other works. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Fractured Masterpieces Nicholas Birns ( College of New Rochelle, USA) and Juan E De Castro (Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, USA) I. Bolaño and World History1. On Fascism, history and evil in Roberto Bolaño Federico Finchelstein (The New School, USA) 2. “More Culture!”: The Rules of Art in Roberto Bolaño’s By Night in Chile Thomas Beebee (Pennsylvania State University, USA) 3. Politics and Ethics in Latin America: On Roberto Bolaño Juan E. De Castro (The New School,USA) 4. The Repolitization of the Latin American Shore: Roberto Bolaño and the Dispersion of “World Literature” Oswaldo Zavala (City University of New York, USA) II. Bolaño’s Literary Worlds 5. Bolaño, Ethics, and the Experts Will H. Corral (Independent Scholar) 6. Considerations on the Real and Reality in Juan Luis Martínez’s La nueva novela and in Roberto Bolaño’s The...
