Bolañistas: The Savage Readers of Roberto Bolaño.
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Chilean Poet, by Alejandro Zambra: The Most Bolañesque Novel Ever?
Could we even think of someone other than Roberto Bolaño when we come across a book titled Chilean Poet? Should we read this 2020 novel about a group of young poets in Santiago as the most Bolañesque story ever written by someone who was not Bolaño?
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The Crossed Paths of Roberto Bolaño and Roque Dalton
In 2005, as Bolañomania was about to erupt on the international literary stage, the New York Times published a review of his posthumous novel 2666, which fueled the myth of Roberto Bolaño as a tragic, adventurous writer. The newspaper alluded to a meeting between Bolaño and the Salvadoran author Roque Dalton that never actually took…
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The (Not So) Secret Life of Roberto Bolaño, by Montero Glez
Is it still remotely possible to discover something new about the life of Roberto Bolaño? Can those who have met him or explored his oeuvre still reveal the hidden secrets behind his mythologized image as the last literary icon from Latin America?
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The Avant-Garde after Bolaño is an academic book that studies the influence of Roberto Bolaño on a new generation of Latin American novelists.
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