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• W2743608300 abstract "The celebrated image of the Chilean author Roberto Bolano is that of an 'urgent' writer. The prose fiction for which Bolano is best known was written and released at an astounding rate in the decade before the author's death in 2003. Because English translations continue to emerge with rapid-fire consistency, Bolano seems to have an uncanny excess of life. His prolificacy, and the often frenetic pace of his novels, suggests that there is a truth for which Bolano sought expression, which remains hidden because his ambitious literary project was interrupted - Bolano's magnum opus, 2666 (2004), was unfinished at the time of his death. Alternatively, Bolano's novels can be considered postmodern explorations of multiplicity that disengage from the quest for truth in favour of somewhat cynical literary experimentation. This article explores how certain truths do find successful expression in Bolano's literary form, and how these are missed when his oeuvre is considered either an unfinished quest for philosophical truth, or a postmodern critique of the concept of truth. It will address how truth is the cause, not the product, of Bolano's writing by discussing what I will call his 'antiliterature'. Bolano's writing sheds light on existence while reflecting a suspicion that literature and philosophy conceal the contingent truths that coordinate their meaningfulness.The Bolano who was marketed to Western audiences with the release of Natasha Wimmer's translation of The Savage Detectives in 2007 was the Bolano who lived fast and died young. The slew of favourable reviews of the novel stressed its autobiographical nature. A blurb for The Savage Detectives in the New York Times describes 'a craftily autobiographical novel about a band of literary guerrillas'.1 In the New Yorker, Daniel Zalewski says Bolano's fiction is largely 'an ironic mythologization of his personal history, and The Savage Detectives hews closest to what Latin-American writers call the Bolano legend'.2 In no uncertain terms, Zalewski pinpoints Bolano's alter ego in The Savage Detectives, suggesting the author 'could have titled [his] novel Self-Portrait in Fifty-three Convex Mirrors'.3 Benjamin Kunkel, writing for the London Review of Books, also identifies Bolano's alter ego, and suggests 'Bolano's desperado image is a large part of his appeal'.4 In her article 'Latin America Translated (Again): Roberto Bolano's The Savage Detectives in the United States', Sarah Pollack describes how an exotic reading of Latin America, buoyed by the figure of Bolano as a drug-taking bohemian-cum-literary Che Guevara, emerged to replace the equally reductive translation of Latin America as the ontologically wonderful setting of magical realist novels like Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970). Pollack writes:Never mind that The Savage Detectives and all his major prose works were written when Bolano was a sober family man, during the intensive seven-year comedown to his impending death. In effect, Bolano becomes ... a cross between the beats and Arthur Rimbaud ..., his life already the stuff of legend.5Indeed, the sobriety of Bolano's writing is sacrificed when the one confuses Bolano the author with his characters, especially the hopelessly romantic experimental poets and avant-gardists.If one reads The Savage Detectives as autobiographical, the implication is that Bolano's prose is a response to the youthful exuberance and ultimate failure of his poetry to express his philosophy. Reviews of the book inevitably connect Bolano's narration of the destruction of 'visceral realism' with '[Bolano's] formation in Mexico City of the infrarealist poetry movement'.6 In The Savage Detectives, there are no examples of visceral realist poetry, just as in 2666 there are no examples of the work of Benno von Archimboldi, the German writer who fascinates the young literary critics whose story the first part of the novel narrates. Hermann Herlinghaus writes that these omissions '[are] not a kind of creative mistreatment of artistic matter by a self-conscious writer (which is fairly common in modern and postmodern prose)'; rather, 'Bolano is skeptical about a presumed transcendence of literary representation. …" @default.
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• W2743608300 title "The secret of the world remains hidden: Roberto Bolano as an antiliterary author" @default.
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