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This is one of the first books to trace the development of Roberto Bolano's work from the beginning to the end of his career. It will appeal to graduates and researchers working on Bolano and Latin American Literature generally, particularly the novel, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature.
List of 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.
About the author
Jonathan Beck Monroe is a former DAAD and American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellow and member of the IIEE's national Fulbright selection committee. He is the author of A Poverty of Objects: The Prose Poem and the Politics of Genre (1987) and Demosthenes' Legacy (2009), a book of prose poems and short fiction. Co-author and editor of Writing and Revising the Disciplines (2002), Local Knowledges, Local Practices: Writing in the Disciplines at Cornell (2003), editor of the special issue 'Poetry, Community, Movement' of the journal Diacritics, and 'Poetics of Avant-Garde Poetries' in Poetics Today. He has published widely on questions of genre, writing and disciplinary practices, innovative poetries of the past two centuries, and avant-garde movements and their contemporary legacies.
