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WHAT HAS NO FORM YET WILL PROTECT ME: LITERATURE AND DISAPPEARANCE IN ROBERTO BOLAÑO

Roberto Bolaño; Disappearance; Latin American Literature; Aesthetics and Politics; Violence and Literature.

Chilean Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) is one of the leading names in contemporary literature. Author of seminal works such as Detetives Selvagens (1998) and 2666 (2004), the Chilean mobilizes in his works different approaches (based on violence, evil and the shadow of politics) of disappearance. The author was part of a generation that became notable for bringing new aesthetic proposals to Latin American literature that sought to differentiate themselves from the Boom trends of the 1970s. In this thesis, the quest to understand aspects of this disappearance goes through the search for its symbolism, its political role, its contemporary discussion in a world that is about to disappear, and the very construction of an aesthetic universe that is disappearing, writing from its own exhaustion. These symbolic and ethical ways of facing disappearance gain theoretical support in the reflections of Blanchot (2005) and Barthes (2005), but also walk through the political and philosophical discussion of Fisher (2021), Haraway (2009), Didi-Huberman (2020), and several other authors who help in the construction of an archeology of disappearance, which is mirrored in the work of the two authors in focus. The ideas surrounding this disappearance gain resonance in the works Amuleto (1999), Detetives Selvagens (1988) and 2666 (2006), but they are also spread throughout the work of the Chilean writer.