Framing Roberto Bolaño: Poetry, Fiction, Literary History, Politics

Author:   Jonathan Beck Monroe (Cornell University, New York)
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Pages:   262
Publication Date:   03 October 2019
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Author:   Jonathan Beck Monroe (Cornell University, New York)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.520kg
ISBN:  

9781108498258


ISBN 10:   1108498256
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   03 October 2019
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Table of Contents

Introduction: unpacking Bolaño's library; Part I: 1. 'Undisciplined writing' Antwerp (Amberes); 2. Poetry as symptom and cure Monsieur Pain; 3. The novel's regimes made visible in the Third Reich (El Tercer Reich); Part II: 4. Poetry at the ends of its lines the unknown university (La universidad desconocida) Nazi literature in the Americas (La literatura nazi en América); 5. Post-avant histories distant star (Estrella distante); Part III: 6. Dismantling narrative drive the savage detectives (Los detectives salvajes); 7. Making visible the 'non-power' of poetry Amulet (Amuleto); 8. Poetry, politics, critique by night in Chile (Nocturno de Chile); Part IV: 9. Literary taxonomies after the wall woes of the true policeman (Los sinsabores del verdadero policía); 10. 'What a relief to give up literature' 2666; Conclusion: from the known to the unknown university.

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'Jonathan Monroe's excellent monograph offers an original take that combines the best of close reading with theoretical reflection. The author explores Bolano's broad-ranging literary culture with great success. He offers a detailed portrait not just of a writer, but of a reader. This is, in short, a significant contribution that will appeal to anyone who wants to understand the whole of Bolano's oeuvre.' Hector Hoyos, Stanford University, California 'Eye-opening and unique, Framing Roberto Bolano is a brilliant, comparative study of literary genres through the analysis of Bolano's oeuvre. Tracing the evolution of Bolano's writing from the minimal (the anti-narrative prose poems in Antwerp) to the maximal (the monumental 2666), it contextualizes Bolano's understanding of western literary history and politics, as well as his attitude toward readers and critics. Beck Monroe's erudite familiarity with American and European as well as Latin American literature facilitates the insightful identification of important literary influences, leitmotifs, and themes in Bolano's works. Revealing Bolano's itinerary as a voracious reader, the book contextualizes his literature, and, along the way, defends its canonicity and importance in the World's Republic of Letters. An amazing research effort, with many innovative and original insights into a literature that seemed to have reached its limits for future literary analysis, it will be of interest to students and professors in Latin American and Western literature.' Ignacio Lopoez-Calvo, University of California, Merced


'Jonathan Monroe's excellent monograph offers an original take that combines the best of close reading with theoretical reflection. The author explores Bolano's broad-ranging literary culture with great success. He offers a detailed portrait not just of a writer, but of a reader. This is, in short, a significant contribution that will appeal to anyone who wants to understand the whole of Bolano's oeuvre.' Hector Hoyos, Stanford University, California 'Eye-opening and unique, Framing Roberto Bolano is a brilliant, comparative study of literary genres through the analysis of Bolano's oeuvre. Tracing the evolution of Bolano's writing from the minimal (the anti-narrative prose poems in Antwerp) to the maximal (the monumental 2666), it contextualizes Bolano's understanding of western literary history and politics, as well as his attitude toward readers and critics. Beck Monroe's erudite familiarity with American and European as well as Latin American literature facilitates the insightful identification of important literary influences, leitmotifs, and themes in Bolano's works. Revealing Bolano's itinerary as a voracious reader, the book contextualizes his literature, and, along the way, defends its canonicity and importance in the World's Republic of Letters. An amazing research effort, with many innovative and original insights into a literature that seemed to have reached its limits for future literary analysis, it will be of interest to students and professors in Latin American and Western literature.' Ignacio Lopoez-Calvo, University of California, Merced 'Jonathan Monroe's excellent monograph offers an original take that combines the best of close reading with theoretical reflection. The author explores Bolano's broad-ranging literary culture with great success. He offers a detailed portrait not just of a writer, but of a reader. This is, in short, a significant contribution that will appeal to anyone who wants to understand the whole of Bolano's oeuvre.' Hector Hoyos, Stanford University, California 'Eye-opening and unique, Framing Roberto Bolano is a brilliant, comparative study of literary genres through the analysis of Bolano's oeuvre. Tracing the evolution of Bolano's writing from the minimal (the anti-narrative prose poems in Antwerp) to the maximal (the monumental 2666), it contextualizes Bolano's understanding of western literary history and politics, as well as his attitude toward readers and critics. Monroe's erudite familiarity with American and European as well as Latin American literature facilitates the insightful identification of important literary influences, leitmotifs, and themes in Bolano's works. Revealing Bolano's itinerary as a voracious reader, the book contextualizes his literature, and, along the way, defends its canonicity and importance in the World's Republic of Letters. An amazing research effort, with many innovative and original insights into a literature that seemed to have reached its limits for future literary analysis, it will be of interest to students and professors in Latin American and Western literature.' Ignacio Lopoez-Calvo, University of California, Merced


'Jonathan Monroe's excellent monograph offers an original take that combines the best of close reading with theoretical reflection. The author explores Bolano's broad-ranging literary culture with great success. He offers a detailed portrait not just of a writer, but of a reader. This is, in short, a significant contribution that will appeal to anyone who wants to understand the whole of Bolano's oeuvre.' Hector Hoyos, Stanford University, California 'Eye-opening and unique, Framing Roberto Bolano is a brilliant, comparative study of literary genres through the analysis of Bolano's oeuvre. Tracing the evolution of Bolano's writing from the minimal (the anti-narrative prose poems in Antwerp) to the maximal (the monumental 2666), it contextualizes Bolano's understanding of western literary history and politics, as well as his attitude toward readers and critics. Monroe's erudite familiarity with American and European as well as Latin American literature facilitates the insightful identification of important literary influences, leitmotifs, and themes in Bolano's works. Revealing Bolano's itinerary as a voracious reader, the book contextualizes his literature, and, along the way, defends its canonicity and importance in the World's Republic of Letters. An amazing research effort, with many innovative and original insights into a literature that seemed to have reached its limits for future literary analysis, it will be of interest to students and professors in Latin American and Western literature.' Ignacio Lopoez-Calvo, University of California, Merced


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Jonathan Beck Monroe is a former DAAD and American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellow and member of the IIEE's national Fulbright selection committee. He is the author of A Poverty of Objects: The Prose Poem and the Politics of Genre (1987) and Demosthenes' Legacy (2009), a book of prose poems and short fiction. Co-author and editor of Writing and Revising the Disciplines (2002), Local Knowledges, Local Practices: Writing in the Disciplines at Cornell (2003), editor of the special issue 'Poetry, Community, Movement' of the journal Diacritics, and 'Poetics of Avant-Garde Poetries' in Poetics Today. He has published widely on questions of genre, writing and disciplinary practices, innovative poetries of the past two centuries, and avant-garde movements and their contemporary legacies.

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