Description:
This book offers the first comprehensive study of intertextuality in Roberto Bolaño's work, tracing references from baroque to postmodern literature. Combining close readings with the history of ideas, it reveals how Bolaño engages with writers like Pascal, Sor Juana, Baudelaire, and Perec, offering fresh insights into his complex literary universe.
Review Quotes:
"Through masterful close readings in dialogue with multiple literary, critical, and philosophical traditions, Loy illuminates how intertextuality in Bolaño's oeuvre is not just a rhetorical strategy, but a profound intervention in how we understand humanity through the experience of modernity. A remarkable, thought-provoking work."
--Tania Gentic "coeditor of Imperialism and the Wider Atlantic: Essays on the Aesthetics, Literature, and Politics o"