Scott Weintraub is assistant professor of Spanish at the University of New Hampshire.

[This book] is the first study in English on the poetic production of Martinez. . . . Scott Weintraub succeeds with this study because it introduces the radical aesthetic of the poet in the English-speaking world and also carefully analyzes the key aspects of his literary output . . . We could say that the surprise text, text and unspeakable paradox text lines are synthesized and put into crisis the notion and coding of the poetry of Juan Luis Martinez.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Invisibility of Juan Luis Martínez in the Chilean Scene of Writing Chapter I: The Philosophy of the Book: La nueva novela’s Philosophical PoeticsChapter II: The Book Within the Book: Math, Science and Politics in La nueva novelaChapter III: The Death of the Poets: Mourning for the Future in La poesía chilenaChapter IV: The Idea of the Double, Absence of an Author: Poemas del otroChapter V: The Copy as Original: Aproximación del Principio de Incertidumbre a un proyecto poéticoConclusion: A Virtual Martínez and A Book Composed of Ruins and Detritus: El poeta anónimo (o el eterno presente de Juan Luis Martínez)Bibliography and Works Cited: Works by and about Juan Luis MartínezIndex

Scott Weintraub is assistant professor of Spanish at the University of New Hampshire.

[This book] is the first study in English on the poetic production of Martinez. . . . Scott Weintraub succeeds with this study because it introduces the radical aesthetic of the poet in the English-speaking world and also carefully analyzes the key aspects of his literary output . . . We could say that the surprise text, text and unspeakable paradox text lines are synthesized and put into crisis the notion and coding of the poetry of Juan Luis Martinez.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Invisibility of Juan Luis Martínez in the Chilean Scene of Writing Chapter I: The Philosophy of the Book: La nueva novela’s Philosophical PoeticsChapter II: The Book Within the Book: Math, Science and Politics in La nueva novelaChapter III: The Death of the Poets: Mourning for the Future in La poesía chilenaChapter IV: The Idea of the Double, Absence of an Author: Poemas del otroChapter V: The Copy as Original: Aproximación del Principio de Incertidumbre a un proyecto poéticoConclusion: A Virtual Martínez and A Book Composed of Ruins and Detritus: El poeta anónimo (o el eterno presente de Juan Luis Martínez)Bibliography and Works Cited: Works by and about Juan Luis MartínezIndex

Scott Weintraub is assistant professor of Spanish at the University of New Hampshire.

[This book] is the first study in English on the poetic production of Martinez. . . . Scott Weintraub succeeds with this study because it introduces the radical aesthetic of the poet in the English-speaking world and also carefully analyzes the key aspects of his literary output . . . We could say that the surprise text, text and unspeakable paradox text lines are synthesized and put into crisis the notion and coding of the poetry of Juan Luis Martinez.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Invisibility of Juan Luis Martínez in the Chilean Scene of Writing Chapter I: The Philosophy of the Book: La nueva novela’s Philosophical PoeticsChapter II: The Book Within the Book: Math, Science and Politics in La nueva novelaChapter III: The Death of the Poets: Mourning for the Future in La poesía chilenaChapter IV: The Idea of the Double, Absence of an Author: Poemas del otroChapter V: The Copy as Original: Aproximación del Principio de Incertidumbre a un proyecto poéticoConclusion: A Virtual Martínez and A Book Composed of Ruins and Detritus: El poeta anónimo (o el eterno presente de Juan Luis Martínez)Bibliography and Works Cited: Works by and about Juan Luis MartínezIndex