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By sheer transgression, Roberto Bolano remapped the Latin American literary canon. Through novels, stories, essays, poems, and interviews, he did it by establishing a dialogue – often rapturous, seldom terse – with the major figures of 20th-century literature. Borges was his center of gravity. He admired Nicanor Parra and Cesar Vallejo. He found Isabel Allende kitschy. Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a merchant of stereotypes and Mario Vargas Llosa, while obviously talented, was in his eyes too professional. He ridiculed Diamela Eltit and plotted to kidnap Octavio Paz. Beyond his affinities, though, Bolano’s oeuvre reads like a who’s who of the continent’s literati. He wasn’t afraid to use fiction to do criticism and vice versa. His spontaneity is a lesson against academic posturing and lazy thinking.
The women's boom in Latin American literature, which could be named as such because of the explosion in the number of women novelists who achieved critical recognition and important positions in the publishing market, occurred during the Post-Boom. Parody is one of the Post-Boom's most salient characteristics. The fiction produced by the women's Boom offers different ways to perform the gender divide, different ways to portray reality that highlight the differences between the Boom's desire for cosmopolitism and the fallout from the Boomito's forced global citizenship. The canonical Boom novels are characterized by a radical questioning of reality and the writer's task, as well as by a rejection of traditional realism. The Chilean Diamela Eltit's "Sociedad Anonima", an article published in 1999, discusses the effects of the neoliberal market's invasion on Chile's culture at the turn of the century. Diamela Eltit's fiction, among the most experimental literary projects of her generation, develops an aesthetic of space.
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