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Posthuman Worlds: Roberto Bolano's Narrative and Virtual Reality
presents interpretations of several novels and one short story by
Roberto Bolano. As befits the global setting of most of these
narratives, they are analyzed from the perspective of global
culture and politics. Particular attention is paid to transnational
European politics, as this topic is central to an understanding of
the intertwined themes of politics and the law in Bolano's work. In
Distant Star and "Labyrinth," these themes exist within the context
of a preoccupation with personal identity and ideology. Adolfo
Cacheiro utilizes psychoanalytic interpretation and philosophical
exegesis to clarify the subjective component of this preoccupation
in the aforementioned texts. The law is also a prominent theme of
The Savage Detectives, which Cacheiro interprets in relation to
mythology. One of the most innovative aspects of this book is the
discussion of the role of virtual reality in Amulet and 2666. These
novels are read as representations of a posthuman world that
manifest an intertextual relationship with science fiction. In 2666
virtual reality unifies the diverse components of a world system in
time and space. A phenomenological investigation of this reality
supports the conclusion that the principle subject matter of 2666
is a naturalistic theology based on technology.
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