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The night of the senses: literary (dis)orders in nocturno de chile

2009; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 18; Issue: 2-3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/13569320903361804

1469-9575

Patrick Dove,

Latin American Literature Studies

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1 For an account of Bolaño's critical reception see Ignacio Echevarría, ‘Bolaño extraterritorial’ in Desvíos. 2 The matter of equality is a central feature of the political in Rancière, in part no doubt because the emergence of the ‘part that has no part’ necessitates debate over the meaning of equality (distributive justice, equality of economic opportunity, equal access to education, public ownership of the means of production, etc.), while at the same time reinforcing the fact that the meaning of equality is neither self-evident nor able to be secured in a way that would free it from the possibility of other interpretations and determinations. 3 I am grateful to Brett Levinson Levinson, Brett. 2004. Market and Thought: Meditations on the Political and Biopolitical, New York: Fordham University Press. [Google Scholar] (personal correspondence) for his help in synthesizing Rancière's discussions of the role played by aesthetics in Rancière's thought. See also his chapter on Rancière in Market and Thought Marx, Karl and Engels, Friedrich. 1978. “Manifesto of the Communist Party”. In The Marx-Engels Reader, New York: Norton. [Google Scholar] for a very helpful discussion of the status of language in Rancière's thinking about the political. 4 Urrutia's personal and professional profile closely resembles that of José Miguel Ibáñez Langlois, a living Catholic priest, literary critic and academic. 5 On the question of ‘uneven development’ and the ideological problems it poses for post-Hegelian thought, see John Kraniauskas Kraniauskas, John. 2005. Difference Against Development: Spiritual Accumulation and the Politics of Freedom. boundary2, 32(2): 53–80. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]'s splendid ‘Difference Against Development: Spiritual Accumulation and the Politics of Freedom’. 6 On Bolaño's disparaging assessment of literary institutions in Latin America see ‘Sevilla me mata’ and ‘Los mitos de Cthulhu’. Following Bolaño Bolaño, Roberto. 2003. “Los mitos de Cthulhu”. In El gaucho insufrible, Barcelona: Anagrama. [Google Scholar]'s death in 2003 a polemic was initiated between one of Bolaño's Spanish friends and critics, Ignacio Echevarría, and the Mexican novelist Jorge Volpi Volpi, Jorge. 2004. Contra Ignacio . La nación (Santiago, Chile), 20 June. [Google Scholar], concerning posthumous interpretations and allegedly malicious misinterpretations of Bolaño's comments on Latin American literary institutions. The polemic revolves around Echevarría's commentary on Bolaño Bolaño, Roberto. 2007. “Sevilla me mata”. In El secreto del mal, Barcelona: Anagrama. [Google Scholar]'s ‘Sevilla me mata’, a presentation delivered just a few days before his death, at a conference organized by Seix Barral that he attended with Volpi and other Latin American writers. 7 The invitation perhaps alludes to a book published by Ibáñez Langlois Langlois, Ibáñez and Miguel, José. 1973. El marxismo: visión crítica, Madrid: Ediciones Rialp. [Google Scholar] in 1973 entitled El marxismo: visión crítica.