Savage Library of Roberto Bolaño

Radical Readings

AvBenjamin Loy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Del i serien Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory

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Visionary Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño was known for his darkly poetic prose and postmodern narratives, exemplified in his novel The Savage Detectives. His work is also deeply infused with references to the Western literary canon—from French and Spanish baroque texts to American and German modernism, as well as postmodern literature from Latin America and France. Taking Bolaño's notion of "savage" reading as a point of departure, this study explores the key authors and literary traditions that underpin his oeuvre. Blending close textual analysis with insights from the history of literature and ideas, Loy offers fresh perspectives on some of Bolaño's most significant works, including Distant Star, By Night in Chile, and 2666. The intertextual dialogues Loy traces—with figures such as Blaise Pascal, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Charles Baudelaire, William Carlos Williams, Ernst Jünger, Nicanor Parra, and Georges Perec—illuminate the aesthetic universe of an author now regarded as a central figure in twenty-first-century world literature.Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-07-14
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Bucknell University Press,U.S.
ISBN:9781684485949
Översättare:Jordan Lee Schnee

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Benjamin Loy is a professor of romance philology at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich in Germany. He is the editor of twelve books and more than fifty articles on modern and contemporary Latin American, Spanish, and French literature and cinema.Jordan Lee Schnee works in—and between—English, German, Yiddish, Spanish, and French. He teaches English literature at the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany.

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"Through masterful close readings in dialogue with multiple literary, critical, and philosophical traditions, Loy illuminates how intertextuality in Bolaño's oeuvre is not just a rhetorical strategy, but a profound intervention in how we understand humanity through the experience of modernity. A remarkable, thought-provoking work." - Tania Gentic, coeditor of Imperialism and the Wider Atlantic: Essays on the Aesthetics, Literature, and Politics of Transatlantic Cultures"This remarkable book illuminates the intertextual networks structuring Bolaño's profound engagement with the traumatic persistence of historical violence. Loy's savage philological approach clears a necessary symbolic space to inscribe ourselves in the readerly communities where his characters and his readers can resist (or not) the bleak universe he depicts, and we recognize as our own." - Mariano Siskind, author of Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America

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AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1 The Making of a Savage Reader: (Latin American) History and Literary FormChapter 2 Origin of the Chilean Trauerspiel: Allegories of Art and Power in By Night in Chile Chapter 3 Dangerous Puzzles: Playing with Life and Death in Distant Star and Nazi Literature in the AmericasChapter 4 The (Il)legibility of the World: Chaos and Cosmos in 2666 and Woes of the True PolicemanConclusion Last Words: Posthumous BolañoAcknowledgementsNotesBibliographyIndex