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...

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Published in:	Caietele Echinox
Main Author:	Ruxandra Cesereanu
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca 2022-12-01
Subjects:	roberto bolaño the savage detectives 2666 marginality poetics of triviality vagrancy bohemia roman noir
Online Access:	http://caieteleechinox.lett.ubbcluj.ro/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CaieteEchinox43-2022-p.262-267.pdf

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