Posthuman Worlds - Roberto Bolano''s Narrative and Virtual Reality

Posthuman Worlds: Roberto Bolaño's Narrative and Virtual Reality is a literary, psychoanalytic, and philosophical investigation of the representation of subjectivity and reality in the context of the relationship of Europe to the Americas as represented in Roberto Bolaño's narrative.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Autobiographical Phenomenology
Chapter 1: The Force Field of the Real: Imaginary and Symbolic Identification in Distant Star
Chapter 2: Fidelity to the Event in "Labyrinth"
Chapter 3: TheSavage Detectives and Fate
Chapter 4: Amulet as a Posthuman Text
Chapter 5: Transnational Allegory as a Prelude to Brexit
Chapter 6: The Part about Heidegger
Chapter 7: Bizarro World
Chapter 8: Virtual Reality and the Revolutionary Subject
Chapter 9: "Redemption to the Redeemer"
Conclusion: Ontological Considerations
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

By Adolfo Cacheiro

Summary

Posthuman Worlds: Roberto Bolaño's Narrative and Virtual Reality is a literary, psychoanalytic, and philosophical investigation of the representation of subjectivity and reality in the context of the relationship of Europe to the Americas as represented in Roberto Bolaño’s narrative.

Product details

• Authors: Adolfo Cacheiro, Cacheiro Adolfo
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9781793649874
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-987-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General, Literary studies: general