The myopic Roberto Bolaño: Writing of the in/visible and in/significant

Abstract

Roberto Bolaño’s diopter correction forced him to develop an informative and blurred perspective of reality. This view has been translated to literature where the object of observation becomes deformed, hidden, or exaggerated as a result a closer or more distant look to the observed subject or object. The result is a visually denigrated fiction, far from the regular epistemological perspective proposed by the “most noble” of the senses. After visible stories such as The Savage Detectives, By Night in Chile, Distant Star and 2666 a secret and never unveiled plot is hiding - a paradoxical way to visualize the impossibility of the sense of experience.