A Liquid Episteme: Roberto Bolaño, Fictional Biographies, and the Enlightenment.
The lives that inhabit Roberto Bolaño's fiction serve as a contestation to the tenets of the Enlightenment. In this respect, water plays a key role in the author's poetics: a metaphor for defeat and madness which both reflects and muddies the horrors of Reason. By examining Bolaño's ability to creat...
| Publicado en: | Hispanic Review Vol. 90; no. 4; pp. 1 - 25 |
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