Abstract
This essay aims to show, through a series of examples, how the Chilean writer Roberto Bolano’s oeuvre – especially his novel 2666 – echoes lines of reasoning developed in German philosopher Walter Benjamin’s essays, whether they are about literature – such as in “The Storyteller” – or history, such as in “On the Concept of History”. Both writers were concerned about a leftist melancholy that came from considering the points of contact between culture and barbarism, ethics and aesthetics, violence and literature. Besides, there seems to be a convergence between Benjamin’s view of history and the one exposed by the character Benno von Archimboldi in 2666
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