By Night in Chile Roberto Bolano

Roberto Bolaño's novel By Night in Chile itself is almost a parody of the "confessional narrative" style that Idelber Avelar accuses of having met its "historical limit" in his book The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction. By...

Post-colonial theory divides the colonizer's point of view from that of the colonized; however, literature, with its promiscuous plurality of points of view can understand, contain, and even synthesize different cultural perspectives. Roberto Bola...