Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star

1. Introduction
Ignacio López-Calvo

Part I. General Overview

2. Writing with the Ghost of Pierre Menard: Authorship, Responsibility, and Justice in Roberto Bolaño’s Distant Star
Rory O’Bryen

3. Roberto Bolaño’s Flower War: Memory, Melancholy, and Pierre Menard
Ignacio López-Calvo

Part II. Two Major Novels

4. 666 Twinned and Told Twice: Roberto Bolaño’s Double Time Frame in 2666
Margaret Boe Birns

5. Ulysses’s Last Voyage: Bolaño and the Allegorical Figuration of Hell
Raúl Rodríguez Freire

6. “Con la cabeza en el abismo”: Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives and 2666, Literary Guerrilla, and the Maquiladora of Death
Martín Camps

Part III. Short Novels and Short Stories

7. Valjean in the Age of Javert: Roberto Bolaño in the Era of Neoliberalism
Nicholas Birns

8. Literature and Proportion in The Insufferable Gaucho
Brett Levinson

Part IV. Prose Poetry and Poetry in Prose

9. Performing Disappearance: Heaven and Sky in Roberto Bolaño and Raúl Zurita
Luis Bagué Quílez

10. Roberto Bolaño’s Big Bang: Deciphering the Code of an Aspiring Writer in Antwerp
Enrique Salas Durazo

Keywords: Literature, Fiction, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary History, Poetry and Poetics, North American Literature, Latin American Culture