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Roberto Bolaño, A Less Distant Star: Critical Essays (Literatures of the Americas)
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Description for Roberto Bolaño, A Less Distant Star: Critical Essays (Literatures of the Americas)
Hardcover. Roberto Bolano is considered one of the most influential Latin American writers of his generation. The first English-language volume on the Chilean author, essays address such topics as Borges's influence, social memory, allegory, and neoliberalism and discuss works like 2666, The Savage Detectives, and Distant Star. Editor(s): Lopez-Calvo, Ignacio. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 436.
Roberto Bolaño has attained an almost mythical stature and is often 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 of his oeuvre. With a special emphasis on his masterpieces: 2666, The Savage Detectives, By Night in Chile, and Distant Star, the essays address topics such as Borges's influence and the role of repetition, social memory, allegory, and neoliberalism.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Literatures of the Americas
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137495174
SKU
V9781137495174
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99-15
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Ignacio López-Calvo is Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of California, Merced, USA. He is the author of seven books including Dragons in the Land of the Condor: Tusán Literature and Knowledge in Peru, The Affinity of the Eye: Writing Nikkei in Peru, and Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction.
Reviews for Roberto Bolaño, A Less Distant Star: Critical Essays (Literatures of the Americas)
“López-Calvo (Univ. of California, Merced) has gathered nine critical essays … intended to feed interest in Roberto Bolaño both as a formidable cultural critic and (as López-Calvo writes in his essay) as the ‘most influential Latin American writer of his generation’ (as he is touted to be). … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” (K. M. Sibbald, Choice, Vol. ... Read more