Framing Roberto Bolaño: Poetry, Fiction, Literary History

Framing Roberto BolaoPoetry, Fiction, Literary History, Politics\nAuthor(s): Jonathan Beck Monroe\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108498258, 978-1108498258\nSynopsis\nPoetry, fiction, literary history, and politics. These four cornerstone concerns of Roberto Bolao's work have established him as a representative, generational figure in not only Chile, Mexico, and Spain, the three principal locations of his life and work, but throughout Europe and the Americas, increasingly on a global scale. At the heart of Bolao's 'poemas-novela', his poet- and poetry-centered novels, is the history and legacy of the prose poem. Challenging the policing of boundaries between verse and prose, poetry and fiction, the literary and the non-literary, the aesthetic and the political, his prose poem novels offer a sustained literary history by other means, a pivotal intervention that restores poetry and literature to.