HISP 415 - Roberto Bola

FC ARHU CD

4 credits
The greatest Latin American novelist of his generation, Roberto Bolao was born in Chile, spent his adolescence in Mico, 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.
Prerequisites & Notes: 300-Level Literature or Culture course in Spanish.