3Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe by Chris Andrews
A different type of book than the others in the list, but worth reading it.
Andrews provides new readings and interpretations of Bolaño‘s novels, including “2666,” “The Savage Detectives,” and “By Night in Chile” while at the same time examining the ideas and narrative strategies that unify his work.
Subsequent chapters explore aspects of Bolaño’s fictional universe and the political, ethical, and aesthetic values that shape it.
Bolaño emerges as the inventor of a prodigiously effective “fiction-making system,” a subtle handler of suspense, a chronicler of aimlessness, a celebrator of courage, an anatomist of evil, and a proponent of youthful openness.
