{"product_id":"la-modernidad-insufrible-roberto-bolazo-en-los-lzmites-de-la-literatura-latinoamericana-contemporzanea-9781469627151","title":"La Modernidad Insufrible: Roberto Bolaño En Los Límites de la Literatura Latinoamericana Contemporánea","description":"Has Chilean author Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) written the final word on Latin America's insufferable modernity? This investigation asserts that Bolaño's novels, short stories, poetry and essays examine to a point of exhaustion the most important aspects of Latin America's modern literary tradition. Bolaño's critique of modernity as a violent historical condition is a radical mode of literary articulation. With it, the current models of criticism--world literature, the global novel, postcolonial and transatlantic studies--are undermined, while the very notions of margin and center are ultimately disolved. Oswaldo Zavala contends that Bolaño deliberately dismantles the symbolic capital of the Western literary tradition by generating a counterhegemonic horizon of meaning that arises from and defines Latin American writing. The book offers innovative readings of \u003ci\u003eDistant Star\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBy Night in Chile\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Savage Detectives\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLast Evenings on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e2666\u003c\/i\u003e, among other works. It ultimately demonstrates that Bolaño transcends the neoliberal dream of a global consciousness by revealing the discontinuous, contingent and savage reality of our pernicious modernity. Bolaño forges the most urgent critique of 21st century Latin American and Western literature alike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Oswaldo Zavala\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Unc Department of Romance Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.09h x 5.79w x 0.74d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469627151\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e Spanish\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOswaldo Zavala is associate professor of Latin American literature at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unc Department of Romance Studies","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45115620032627,"sku":"9781469627151","price":110.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_7eefa679-7a70-4ed7-9b4c-b90cf9091c0c.jpg?v=1781787527","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/la-modernidad-insufrible-roberto-bolazo-en-los-lzmites-de-la-literatura-latinoamericana-contemporzanea-9781469627151","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}