HISP 415 - Roberto Bolaños Vagabond Latin America

Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD

The greatest Latin American novelist of his generation, Roberto Bolaño was born in Chile, spent his adolescence in México, then wandered throughout the Spanish-speaking world. Everyone he met was a poet, and he turned his friends’ unruly lives into poetic prose. Besides reading his masterpiece Los detectives salvajes, we will read the great Latin American writers who inspired him and a few who enraged him, Borges, Maples Arce, Vallejo, Lihn, Dalton, Zurita, and Paz. Taught in Spanish.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: P. O’Connor
Prerequisites & Notes
300-level Literature or Culture course in Spanish