Bolaño, Borges and the Culture of the End of the Century. A Reading of La liteartura nazi en América and Estrella distante
Abstract
This article investigates the literary appropriation of Borges by Roberto Bolaño in two novels, La liteartura nazi en América and Estrella distante, both from 1996. While the borgean orientation of these Bolaño books -especially the first one- is well known, the contribution of this essay is to contextualize this appropriation within the framework of the culture of the late twentieth century, and in exploring an aspect of Borges' work little attended by Bolaño’s critics: his antifascist facet. Through the comparison of these novels with the story by Borges “Deustches Requiem” (1946), the article aims to illuminate a relevant aspect of Bolaño’s narrative project
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