The Savage Detectivism of Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction
The present study analyses Roberto Bolaño’s engagement with marginality in the novels The Savage Detectives and 2666, via the conventions of the noir genre. The aesthetics of the peripheral, the poetics of triviality, vagrancy, bohemian wanderlust, and enigmatic rituals are performed in an inimitabl...
| Published in: | Caietele Echinox |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
2022-12-01
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| Online Access: | http://caieteleechinox.lett.ubbcluj.ro/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CaieteEchinox43-2022-p.262-267.pdf |
| Summary: | The present study analyses Roberto Bolaño’s engagement with marginality in the novels The Savage Detectives and 2666, via the conventions of the noir genre. The aesthetics of the peripheral, the poetics of triviality, vagrancy, bohemian wanderlust, and enigmatic rituals are performed in an inimitable personal style that problematizes issues pertaining to the theory of literature and the theory of the novel. Atomised, puzzle-like novels with deliberately obscure police procedural plots, The Savage Detectives and 2666 break several
authorial and narrative architectural patterns, becoming major landmarks in today’s novelistic worldscape. |
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| ISSN: | 1582-960X |