Summary: | <p>By an interpretation of the aesthetics resources used by Roberto Bolaño in his short history “Detectives”, we seek its fictional status, as it contains strong traces of autobiographical motifs — so much as to become a crucial point for its reading. From a comparative analysis of other passages with the same motifs in other Bolaño’s texts, and new forms of thinking the contemporary literature, we can pose a question of what contemporary texts are coming to be in this new century. Is contemporary literature breaking the whole paradigm of literature itself, or this rebellion against its own field is a constitutive part of the institution we came to call literature?</p>
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