Identity on exposure: Roberto Bolaño and the palimpsest of Latin American solitude
This essay aims at studying the powerful but, at first glance, carefully hidden web of intertextual allusions that links Roberto Bolaño’s oeuvre to the so-called “boom” narrative series. Indeed, the Chilean author establishes with the founding narrators of the local canon an intergenerational dialog...
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| Tipo de documento: | Artículo |
| Estado: | Published version |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | Costa Rica |
| Institución: | UCR |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Lenguaje: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/42777 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/kanina/article/view/42777 |
| Nivel de acceso: | Acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Latin American Identity Intertextuality boom generation Roberto Bolaño identidad latinoamericana intertextualidad generación del boom |
| Sumario: | This essay aims at studying the powerful but, at first glance, carefully hidden web of intertextual allusions that links Roberto Bolaño’s oeuvre to the so-called “boom” narrative series. Indeed, the Chilean author establishes with the founding narrators of the local canon an intergenerational dialogue between equals that, exceeding both the need of fetichist imitation and the limits of parodic deconstruction, critically redefines “Latin American identity”, bringing that notorious topic to a new evolutional stage. |
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