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VARGAS ALVAREZ, Pedro Luis. Crossed Fields: Politics and Literary Field in Estrella Distante, by Roberto Bolaño. Núcleo [online]. 2013, vol.25, n.30, pp.149-164. ISSN 0798-9784.

It is my intention to analyze the way in which in Estrella Distante, a novel written by Roberto Bolaño, the multiple intersections between politics and aesthetics are represented as keystones to understand the functioning of the Chilean literary field during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. I also want to underline that in said novel one may find the implications of a state-of-the-art aesthetic proposal that attempts to present the apotheosis of war and death, and that artistically writes and creates a new order of the field that justifies and tries to aesthetically replicate the nation’s new political order. In this sense, the "barbaric writing" project shown in the novel is both the writing of the new "art rules" and of new rules regarding the socio-political order, characterized by the constant threat of war and death.

Palabras clave : politics; literary field; vanguard; art rules.

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