Premium Content Mourning and Allegory in Roberto Bolaño's By Night in Chile
By Kathleen M Dooley - October 26, 2005
Roberto Bolaño's novel By Night in Chile itself is almost a parody of the "confessional narrative" style that Idelber Avelar accuses of having met its "historical limit" in his book The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction. By embodying the voice of a man who wishes to confess but cannot admit to doing wrong, Bolaño utilizes the…
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