The Forensic Fiction of Roberto Bolaño’s 2666

Mikkel Krause Frantzen

doi:10.1080/00111619.2016.1246412

The Forensic Fiction of Roberto Bolaño’s 2666

Mikkel Krause Frantzen

Department of Arts and Cultural Studies

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Abstract

The main event of Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 is a feminicide in Santa Teresa, a fictionalized version of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. In this essay I show how Bolaño approaches this event in a forensic way, not only in terms of content but also in its compositional and stylistic dimensions. The result is a blurring of fact and fiction, and in this very blurring the novel moves beyond an ethical paradigm of trauma and testimony and toward a political project of the twenty-first century.

Original language	Danish
Journal	Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
Volume	58
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	437-448
Number of pages	12
ISSN	0011-1619
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2016.1246412
Publication status	Published - 8 Aug 2017

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