Framing Roberto Bolańo

Poetry, fiction, literary history, and politics. These four cornerstone concerns of Roberto Bola&&&241;o's work have established him as a representative, generational figure in not only Chile, Mexico, and Spain, the three principal locations of his life and work, but throughout Europe and the Americas, increasingly on a global scale. At the heart of Bola&&&241;o's 'poemas-novela', his poet- and poetry-centered novels, is the history and legacy of the prose poem. Challenging the policing of boundaries between verse and prose, poetry and fiction, the literary and the non-literary, the aesthetic and the political, his prose poem novels offer a sustained literary history by other means, a pivotal intervention that restores poetry and literature to full capacity. Framing Roberto Bola&&&241;o is one of the first books to trace the full arc and development of Bola&&&241;o's work from the beginning to the end of his career.

'Jonathan Monroe's excellent monograph offers an original take that combines the best of close reading with theoretical reflection. The author explores Bola&&&241;o's broad-ranging literary culture with great success. He offers a detailed portrait not just of a writer, but of a reader. This is, in short, a significant contribution that will appeal to anyone who wants to understand the whole of Bola&&&241;o's oeuvre.' H&&&233;ctor Hoyos, Stanford University, California

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