The Savage Library of Roberto Bolao (Paperback)

Benjamin Loy

ISBN 10: 1684485932 / ISBN 13: 9781684485932

Published by Bucknell University Press,U.S., 2026

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Paperback. Visionary Chilean writer Roberto Bolano was known for his darkly poetic prose and postmodern narratives, exemplified in his novel The Savage Detectives. His work is also deeply infused with references to the Western literary canonfrom French and Spanish baroque texts to American and German modernism, as well as postmodern literature from Latin America and France. Taking Bolano's notion of "savage" reading as a point of departure, this study explores the key authors and literary traditions that underpin his oeuvre. Blending close textual analysis with insights from the history of literature and ideas, Loy offers fresh perspectives on some of Bolano's most significant works, including Distant Star, By Night in Chile, and 2666. The intertextual dialogues Loy traceswith figures such as Blaise Pascal, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Charles Baudelaire, William Carlos Williams, Ernst Juenger, Nicanor Parra, and Georges Perecilluminate the aesthetic universe of an author now regarded as a central figure in twenty-first-century world literature.Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. This book offers the first comprehensive study of intertextuality in Roberto Bolano's work, tracing references from baroque to postmodern literature. Combining close readings with the history of ideas, it reveals how Bolano engages with writers like Pascal, Sor Juana, Baudelaire, and Perec, offering fresh insights into his complex literary universe. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Savage Library of Roberto Bolao (Paperback)
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press,U.S.
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1684485932
• ISBN 13: 9781684485932
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Visionary Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño was known for his darkly poetic prose and postmodern narratives, exemplified in his novel The Savage Detectives. His work is also deeply infused with references to the Western literary canon―from French and Spanish baroque texts to American and German modernism, as well as postmodern literature from Latin America and France. Taking Bolaño’s notion of “savage” reading as a point of departure, this study explores the key authors and literary traditions that underpin his oeuvre. Blending close textual analysis with insights from the history of literature and ideas, Loy offers fresh perspectives on some of Bolaño’s most significant works, including Distant Star, By Night in Chile, and 2666. The intertextual dialogues Loy traces―with figures such as Blaise Pascal, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Charles Baudelaire, William Carlos Williams, Ernst Jünger, Nicanor Parra, and Georges Perec―illuminate the aesthetic universe of an author now regarded as a central figure in twenty-first-century world literature.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

About the Author

BENJAMIN LOY is a professor of romance philology at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich in Germany. He is the editor of twelve books and more than fifty articles on modern and contemporary Latin American, Spanish, and French literature and cinema.

JORDAN LEE SCHNEE works in―and between―English, German, Yiddish, Spanish, and French. He teaches English literature at the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany.