Carlos Garrido Castellano is Lecturer at University College Cork, Ireland.

An unprecedented study of the art novel’s fascination with the convergence of art and life in our times, when to live like an artist can mean to barely scrape by on contingent work in informal economies, but also to devote oneself to fathoming and fabricating a world beyond privation. With remarkable global breadth, and one wary eye always fixed on art’s incorporation into global capitalism, Carlos Garrido Castellano has written an indispensable book about how literature envisions the unfulfilled promise of artmaking as a model for a flourishing life.- Sarah Brouillette, Carleton University

• AcknowledgementsChapter 1 Introduction. Art F(r)ictions: Assessing the Contemporary Art Novel Section 1: Do We Live in Neoliberal Art Worlds? Chapter 2 The Aesthetics of Narcocapitalist PoliticsChapter 3 Art Economies and Energy Colonialism, Luanda VersionSection 2: Literature and Artistic Subjectivity: Expertise, Entrepreneurialism, Activism. Chapter 4 Redefining Artistic Expertise in Pre- and Post-Crisis PortugalChapter 5 "Killing Several Birds with One Stone": Art Activism and Financial Speculation in the Dominican RepublicSection 3: The Contemporary Art Novel: Forms, Uses, FormationsChapter 6 The Novel after Art Theory: Neoliberalism as Reterritorialization in the Spanish StateChapter 7 The Phenomenology of the Art NovelChapter 8 The Transdividual Art NovelIndex

Carlos Garrido Castellano is Lecturer at University College Cork, Ireland.

An unprecedented study of the art novel’s fascination with the convergence of art and life in our times, when to live like an artist can mean to barely scrape by on contingent work in informal economies, but also to devote oneself to fathoming and fabricating a world beyond privation. With remarkable global breadth, and one wary eye always fixed on art’s incorporation into global capitalism, Carlos Garrido Castellano has written an indispensable book about how literature envisions the unfulfilled promise of artmaking as a model for a flourishing life.- Sarah Brouillette, Carleton University

• AcknowledgementsChapter 1 Introduction. Art F(r)ictions: Assessing the Contemporary Art Novel Section 1: Do We Live in Neoliberal Art Worlds? Chapter 2 The Aesthetics of Narcocapitalist PoliticsChapter 3 Art Economies and Energy Colonialism, Luanda VersionSection 2: Literature and Artistic Subjectivity: Expertise, Entrepreneurialism, Activism. Chapter 4 Redefining Artistic Expertise in Pre- and Post-Crisis PortugalChapter 5 "Killing Several Birds with One Stone": Art Activism and Financial Speculation in the Dominican RepublicSection 3: The Contemporary Art Novel: Forms, Uses, FormationsChapter 6 The Novel after Art Theory: Neoliberalism as Reterritorialization in the Spanish StateChapter 7 The Phenomenology of the Art NovelChapter 8 The Transdividual Art NovelIndex

Carlos Garrido Castellano is Lecturer at University College Cork, Ireland.

An unprecedented study of the art novel’s fascination with the convergence of art and life in our times, when to live like an artist can mean to barely scrape by on contingent work in informal economies, but also to devote oneself to fathoming and fabricating a world beyond privation. With remarkable global breadth, and one wary eye always fixed on art’s incorporation into global capitalism, Carlos Garrido Castellano has written an indispensable book about how literature envisions the unfulfilled promise of artmaking as a model for a flourishing life.- Sarah Brouillette, Carleton University

• AcknowledgementsChapter 1 Introduction. Art F(r)ictions: Assessing the Contemporary Art Novel Section 1: Do We Live in Neoliberal Art Worlds? Chapter 2 The Aesthetics of Narcocapitalist PoliticsChapter 3 Art Economies and Energy Colonialism, Luanda VersionSection 2: Literature and Artistic Subjectivity: Expertise, Entrepreneurialism, Activism. Chapter 4 Redefining Artistic Expertise in Pre- and Post-Crisis PortugalChapter 5 "Killing Several Birds with One Stone": Art Activism and Financial Speculation in the Dominican RepublicSection 3: The Contemporary Art Novel: Forms, Uses, FormationsChapter 6 The Novel after Art Theory: Neoliberalism as Reterritorialization in the Spanish StateChapter 7 The Phenomenology of the Art NovelChapter 8 The Transdividual Art NovelIndex