http://www.metafilter.com/tags/LatinAmericanLiterature Posts tagged with 'LatinAmericanLiterature' at MetaFilter. Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:47:21 -0800 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:47:21 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/68641/Short%2DStories%2Dby%2DRoberto%2DBola%F1o <b>7 short stories by Roberto Bola&#0241;o</b> <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/08/08/050808fi_fiction_bolano?printable=true">G&#0243;mez Palacio</a>, <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2007/10/01/071001fi_fiction_bolano?printable=true">The Insufferable Gaucho</a>, <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2007/11/26/071126fi_fiction_bolano?printable=true">&#0193;lvaro Rousselot’s Journey</a>, <a href="http://www.ndpublishing.com/books/bolanolast.html">Phone Calls</a>, <a href="http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/1289/prmID/1409">Dance Card</a>. From <i>Nazi Literature in the Americas</i>: <a href="http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2007/fall/bolano-nazi-literature-americas/">Edelmira Thompson de Mendiluce, Luz Mendiluce Thompson &amp; Ernesto P&#0233;rez Mas&#0243;n</a> and <a href="http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/014_05/2047">The Fabulous Schiaffino Boys</a>. If you know the fiction of Roberto Bola&#0241;o you know what you're in for. If you don't, any of these stories is a good place to start, though the first three are perhaps the most natural starting points. One more story in audio form: <a href="http://www.miettecast.com/2007/04/25/a-literary-adventure/#more-164">A Literary Adventure</a> [Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast] Poems: <a href="http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/bolano_f07.html">Self Portrait at Twenty Years</a> and <a href="http://bostonreview.net/BR32.5/bolano.php">My Life in the Tubes of Survival</a>. Interviews with his two main English language translators <a href="http://www.quarterlyconversation.com/TQC_8/andrews.html">Chris Andrews</a> and <a href="http://www.quarterlyconversation.com/TQC_8/wimmer.html">Natasha Wimmer</a>. <a href="http://www.thesavagedetectives.com/lib/pdfs/bolano-biographicalessay.pdf">Biographical Essay on Bola&#0241;o</a> by Wimmer. <small>[pdf]</small> Carmen Boullosa, a friend and contemporary of Bola&#0241;o's, <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070423/boullosa">describes the literary scene the young Bola&#0241;o participated in during the 70's</a>. Paul Berman explains how Bola&#0241;o's novel The Savage Detectives <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2173485/pagenum/all/">fits into the literary history of Latin America</a>. <small>[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/64183/The-Great-Bolano">Bola&#0241;o previously on MetaFilter</a>]</small> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.68641 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:47:21 -0800 Bolano CarmenBoullosa Chile ChileanLiterature ChrisAndrews LatinAmerica LatinAmericanLiterature literature Mexico NatashaWimmer poetry RobertoBolano shortfiction shortstories Kattullus