David Kurnick
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The Savage Detectives elicits mixed feelings. An instant classic in the Spanish-speaking world upon its 1998 publication, a critical and commercial smash on its 2007 translation into English, Roberto Bolaño's novel has also been called an exercise in 1970s nostalgia, an escapist fantasy of a romanticized Latin America, and a publicity event propped up by the myth of the bad-boy artist.
David Kurnick argues that the controversies surrounding Bolaño's...
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"Co-Winner of the 2013 Sonia Rudikoff Prize, Northeast Victorian Studies Association" "Shortlisted for the 2013 MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association" David Kurnick is associate professor of English at Rutgers University.
According to the dominant tradition of literary criticism, the novel is the form par excellence of the private individual. Empty Houses challenges this consensus by reexamining the genre's development from the mid-nineteenth...