The Poetics of Juego. Literature and Politics in Roberto Bolaño's Distant Star

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Literary Studies (research) (MA)

Casas Agilda, Artur (2018)

The Poetics of Juego. Literature and Politics in Roberto Bolaño's Distant Star

Research master thesis | Literary Studies (research) (MA)

In this paper I approach the novel Distant Star (1996) by Roberto Bolaño (Chile, 1953-2003) with the goal of rendering visible the reflection and articulation that it undertakes of the fields of literature/poetics and life/politics. By means of the development of a theoretical and methodological framework mainly influenced by Mieke Bal and Jacques Rancière, I reach the conclusion that the novel offers an original contribution to the problem of political commitment in the Latin American intellectuals of the 20th century. I introduce the concepts of "poetics of juego", "doubling/mirroring" and "menardism".

Latin American Literature

Literature and Politics

Mieke Bal

Jacques Rancière

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