Traumatic Time in Roberto Bolaño's <i>Amuleto</i> and the Archive of 1968

Long, Ryan

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“…However, when reminiscence does occur, we see the collision of facts and fiction and the confusion that ensues. Long (2010) and Marinescu (2013) have identified Amulet as an example of the genre of 'testimonio': a Latin American narrative genre that emerged in the wake of the Cuban Revolution as a political medium for recording, presenting and circulating the life stories and experiences of subaltern or socially marginalized subjects. The story evokes catharsis and a shared fear.…”

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Historiographic Metafiction and the Metaphysical Detective in Roberto Bolaño’s Amulet

Tyers

2021

MANUSYA: Journal of Humanities

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Roberto Bolaño’s Amulet explores the writing of history as an attempt to construct a narrative from a multitude of unreliable and conflicting sources. As a result, any attempt at historiography is also plagued by the problems of representation found in literature. More particularly, not unlike detective fiction, history is concerned with identifying the inspirations and actions of its players and with revealing the truth about an episode or series of episodes, using historical information, all of which may or may not be reliable. By examining the relationship between the historical and the fictional in Amulet this paper will discuss Bolaño’s use of the tropes of metaphysical detective fiction and how they help foreground the difficulties posed by historical facts by reinventing them in fiction. This will, in turn, highlight the intersection between detective fiction and historiographic metafiction and how by combining these two genres writers can reimagine historical contexts and find new meanings and significance.

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Section: Amulet As Metaphysical Detective Fictionmentioning

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Historiographic Metafiction and the Metaphysical Detective in Roberto Bolaño’s Amulet

Tyers

2021

MANUSYA: Journal of Humanities

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Latin American Literature in the Age of Global War

Steinberg

2017

Comparative Literature

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This essay reads the works of the late Roberto Bolaño, arguably the most widely read and significant Latin American novelist since Gabriel García Márquez, according to their relation to world literature, or what has come to be understood as the “Latin American global novel.” I argue that such a conception circles around the secret and more sinister global scene at work in Bolaño's texts, understood as the figure of global war, traced from his mourning of the ideals of modernity (the fall of the Spanish Second Republic, the Nazis, the overthrow of Chile's Salvador Allende) to his works' deeply felt uncertainties about our present times (post-dictatorial reconciliation, narcoterror, the women of Ciudad Juárez). Focusing on the short novel Amulet, the essay proposes Bolaño's writing as an experiment in infrapolitical dwelling in an age unmoored from the orienting promise of modernity that had previously assured the place of the literary institution.

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Traumatic Time in Roberto Bolaño's Amuleto and the Archive of 1968

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Historiographic Metafiction and the Metaphysical Detective in Roberto Bolaño’s Amulet

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Latin American Literature in the Age of Global War

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