David Kurnick argues that the controversies surrounding Roberto Bolaà oâ s life and work have obscured his achievementsâ and that The Savage Detectives is still underappreciated for the subtlety and vitality of its portrait of collective life. He explores the novel as an epic of social structure and its decomposition.
David Kurnick argues that the controversies surrounding Roberto Bolaà oâ s life and work have obscured his achievementsâ and that The Savage Detectives is still underappreciated for the subtlety and vitality of its portrait of collective life. He explores the novel as an epic of social structure and its decomposition.
David Kurnick is associate professor of English at Rutgers University at New Brunswick. He is the author of Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel (2012). His writing has appeared in the Village Voice, Public Books, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, and his translations from Spanish include Julio Cortázar's Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires (2014) and work by Álvaro Enrigue.
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Introduction I. Mexicans Lost in Mexico (1975) Some Neighborhoods of Part I II. The Savage Detectives (1976-1996) Some Microclimates of Part II III. The Deserts of Sonora (1976) Coda Acknowledgments Notes Index
Introduction I. Mexicans Lost in Mexico (1975) Some Neighborhoods of Part I II. The Savage Detectives (1976-1996) Some Microclimates of Part II III. The Deserts of Sonora (1976) Coda Acknowledgments Notes Index
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