Roberto Bolaño, a less distant star : critical essays / edited by Ignacio López-Calvo.

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Prefaci: On Roberto Bolaño / Siddhartha Deb -- Introduction / Ignacio López-Calvo -- Part I. General Overview: Chapter 1. Writing with the Ghost of Pierre Menard: Authorship, Responsibility and Justice in Roberto Bolaño's Distant Star / Rory O'Bryen; Chapter 2. Roberto Bolaño's Flower War: Memory, Melancholy, and Pierre Menard / Ignacio López-Calvo -- Part II. Two Major Novels: Chapter 3. 666 Twinned and Told Twice: Roberto Bolaño's Double Time Frame in 2666 / Margaret Boe Birns; Chapter 4. Ulysses' Last Voyage: Bolaño and the Allegorical Figuration of Hell / raúl rodríguez freire; Chapter 5. "Con la cabeza en el abismo": Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectifvies and 2666, Literary Guerrilla, Maquiladora of Death / Martín Camps -- Part III. Short Novels and Short Stories: Chapter 6. Valjean in The Age of Javert: Roberto Bolaño in the Era of Neoliberalism / Nicholas Birns; Chapter 7. Literature and Proportion in The Insufferable Gaucho / Brett Levinson -- Part IV. Prose Poetry and Poetry in Prose: Chapter 8. Performing Disappearance: Heaven and Sky in Roberto Bolaño and Raúl Zurita / Luis Bagué Quílez; Chapter 9. Bolaño's Big Bang: Dechiphering the Code of an Aspiring Writer in Antwerp / Enrique Salas-Durazo.

"Bolaño has attained a mythical stature in a short time, often being considered the most influential Latin American writer of his generation. The first English-language volume of essays on the Chilean author, Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star: Critical Essays, includes ten critical essays covering many of his twenty publications, with a special emphasis on his masterpieces: 2666, The Savage Detectives, By Night in Chile, and Distant Star. The essays address Borges's influence and the role of repetition, social memory, allegory, and neoliberalism in Bolaño's works, among many other topics. This book covers the need for a study that goes beyond the rather impressionistic journalistic writing that, until now, constitutes the core of the written English-language reception of Bolaño"-- Editorial.