Abstract

This paper examines Roberto Bolano's rewriting of his own short story Ramirez Hoffman, el infame in the novel Estrella distante. It considers the re-narration of historical catastrophes as an ethical and political scheme, exploring Bolano's poetics of narrative pluralization, as well as his ethics of reading as a critical experience. Following Idelber Avelar's theories on postdictatorial fiction, the paper highlights the author's effort to impede the resolution of the mourning process, opposing the politics of memory of the so-called Latin American democratic transition.

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