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This logic—whereby suspicion of the works readers shades into disdain for the writer—reached its oddest moment in a 2009 essay entitled Questions for Bolaño by the eminent scholar of Latin American literature Jean Franco.Franco describes Bolaños major novels as two huge teasers—a description she awards because of their failure to reach traditional closure (a peccadillo commonplace in most twentieth-century experimental fiction).
so that the works success was consistently described as the authors plan: Bolaño didnt just become a best-selling author but was able to take advantage of and become a major commodity; in a global market favoring books that could be translated with relative ease.in particular the speculation that the liver disease that killed him was the result of a (probably apocryphal) heroin addiction.reported on a trip home during which he sat in a café listening to an expat gringo couple discuss plans to rent a house on Oaxacas beach-lined coast.
and his translations from Spanish include Julio Cortázars Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires (2014) and work by Álvaro Enrigue.So had his presss publicity campaign: Bolaños previously translated work had all been brought out by New Directions.
psychic accompaniment to any act of mildly self-aware North American cross-cultural consumption: the American ignorance and arrogance exposed by the Bolaño skeptics was in no way surprising.
I was wary of letting the critique of the Bolaño phenomenon stand in for a reading of Bolaño—wary.you can pair the smart ring to a Galaxy smartphone to take pictures or silence alarms via the Gestures capability.
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