TY - JOUR
T1 - “A language not of this world”
T2 - Depersonalization and Unintelligibility in Robert Bolaño’s “The Part about the Crimes”
AU - Tocco, Fabricio
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The following article deals with the intersections of the linguistic, the literary, and the political in Roberto Bolaño’s “The Part about the Crimes”, the fourth chapter of his novel 2666. Building on Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito, Argentinean anthropologist Rita Segato, and American scholar David Kurnick, I propose that Bolaño engages with what I call “symbolic unintelligibility”, using it to respond to literary tradition and to the political conflicts of our times.
AB - The following article deals with the intersections of the linguistic, the literary, and the political in Roberto Bolaño’s “The Part about the Crimes”, the fourth chapter of his novel 2666. Building on Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito, Argentinean anthropologist Rita Segato, and American scholar David Kurnick, I propose that Bolaño engages with what I call “symbolic unintelligibility”, using it to respond to literary tradition and to the political conflicts of our times.
KW - 2666
KW - Depersonalisation
KW - Roberto Bolaño
KW - unintelligibility
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85105212810&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13569325.2020.1798219
DO - 10.1080/13569325.2020.1798219
M3 - Article
SN - 1356-9325
VL - 30
SP - 91
EP - 105
JO - Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies
JF - Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies
IS - 1
ER -