Amulet: Roberto Bolaño and the History of the Future

Bolaño's fiction, whether set in Chile or Mexico, is as much about a memory of Latin America as it is about the region’s actuality, even if that memory is sometimes also a memory of the future.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.

00:00 Introduction
02:19 Literature Beyond the Nation and Beyond the Present
04:41 Questions
09:42 A Lost Generation
18:41 Credits

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