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The Rumpus.net: Bolaño, Inc.: Moya Contrasts the Myth with the Man
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Fascinating fuel for my Bolano obsession. http://bit.ly/2EQGru 5 days ago |
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A Latin American author on Roberto Bolano's place in the pantheon of Latin American authors: http://tinyurl.com/yareejv 8 days ago |
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Rachel sent me an interesting piece about Roberto Bolaño from Guernica. Worth reading: http://bit.ly/2EQGru 8 days ago |
Bolaño, Inc.: Moya Contrasts the Myth with the Man
The Rumpus.net —
... and eight other books, has written a piece about the “construction of the ‘Bolaño myth’ in the United States“ that contrasts this myth with the man he knew. ...
The German Mujahid review
the Literary Saloon —
... November issues Among the November issues of online periodicals available now are Words without Borders -- on: Twenty Years After: Germany Now and Then -- and Open Letters . (Posted by: M.A.Orthofer) - permanent link - Horacio Castellanos Moya on American Bola omania A while ago Horacio Castellanos Moya wrote on the American Bola omania phenomenon for La Nacion , Sobre el mito Bola o , and now Guernica prints a translation of the piece, Bola o Inc. . (See also Scott Esposito's earlier mention of Horacio Castellanos ...
Horacio Castellanos Moya on American Bolanomania
the Literary Saloon —
... November issues Among the November issues of online periodicals available now are Words without Borders -- on: Twenty Years After: Germany Now and Then -- and Open Letters . (Posted by: M.A.Orthofer) - permanent link - Horacio Castellanos Moya on American Bola omania A while ago Horacio Castellanos Moya wrote on the American Bola omania phenomenon for La Nacion , Sobre el mito Bola o , and now Guernica prints a translation of the piece, Bola o Inc. . (See also Scott Esposito's earlier mention of Horacio Castellanos ...
Tuesday Morning LitLinks
Author Scoop —
... Horacio Castellanos Moya speaks out against turning the legacy of Roberto Bolaño into a pop culture commodity. (Guernica) ...
Blog of a Bookslut — "Friend of Bolaño" (and excellent writer in his own right -- I loved last year's Senselessness) Horacio Castellanos Moya writes about the myth of the dead writer that has taken over in the US. Every time Ive found myself on American soil and Ive made the mistake of admitting that Im a fiction writer who comes from Latin America, that person will immediately pull out García Márquez, and will do it, whats more, with a self-satisfied smile, as if he were saying to me, I know you. Now, those same North Americans have begun to pull out Bolaño. ...
Bolaño Backlash?
The Book Bench —
... Hot off the (Internet) presses, from Guernica magazine: an essay by novelist Horacio Castellanos Moya on the American marketing effort that helped drive the recent popularity of Roberto Bolaño’s novels in English (the writer was ...
Roberto Bolaño was no literary rebel, says novelist Horacio Castellanos Moya
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk —
... , reprinted in English in Guernica, emphasises his tumultuous youth, his decision to drop out of high school and become a poet, his imprisonment in Chile during the coup d'état, his itinerant existence in Europe, his presumed drug addiction and premature death. ...
"The Landlords of Fortune": The Publishing Industry and the Bolaño Myth
CONTRA JAMES WOOD —
... Now, let’s turn to some excerpts from Horacio Castellanos Moya’s article, “Bolaño Inc.”, published in the latest issue of Guernica. It is written as a personal amplification of some points made in Sarah Pollack’s “Latin America Translated (Again): Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives in the United States,” in a recent issue of Comparative Literature. ...
Human Nature
Literary Kicks —
[image] Some of my literary/blogger friends have taken to tweeting their literary links. Not me -- I'm holding out for the blog format, just like McSweeney's is holding out for newspapers . Here's another roundup involving great writers and other finds ... 1. Nature magazine goes way back. 2. Orhan Pamuk's real-life Museum of Innocence. 3. The many facets of Roberto Bolano . 4. The many quirks of William Golding , who originally wanted Simon the Christ symbol to actually witness the arrival of God in his great Lord of the Flies . 5. ...
WSJ on 'Ghetto Lit'
the Literary Saloon —
... November issues Among the November issues of online periodicals available now are Words without Borders -- on: Twenty Years After: Germany Now and Then -- and Open Letters . (Posted by: M.A.Orthofer) - permanent link - Horacio Castellanos Moya on American Bola omania A while ago Horacio Castellanos Moya wrote on the American Bola omania phenomenon for La Nacion , Sobre el mito Bola o , and now Guernica prints a translation of the piece, Bola o Inc. . (See also Scott Esposito's earlier mention of Horacio Castellanos ...
Transnational Armenian literature ?
the Literary Saloon —
... November issues Among the November issues of online periodicals available now are Words without Borders -- on: Twenty Years After: Germany Now and Then -- and Open Letters . (Posted by: M.A.Orthofer) - permanent link - Horacio Castellanos Moya on American Bola omania A while ago Horacio Castellanos Moya wrote on the American Bola omania phenomenon for La Nacion , Sobre el mito Bola o , and now Guernica prints a translation of the piece, Bola o Inc. . (See also Scott Esposito's earlier mention of Horacio Castellanos ...
The Bolaño Myth and the Backlash Cycle
The Millions —
... drink of his life.” – Horacio Castellanos Moya
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If you’ve been tooling around the cross-referential world of Anglo-American literary blogs this fall, chances are you’ve come across an essay from the Argentine paper La Naçion called “Bolaño Inc.” Back in September, Scott Esposito of Conversational Reading linked to the original Spanish. When Guernica published an English translation this month, we mentioned it here. The Guardian ...
