Research Seminar | The Avant-Garde Influence in the Fragmentary Structure of 2666 by Roberto Bolaño

Dr Raquel Bra Núñez

Overview

The aim of this seminar is to examine the influence of the main Avant-Garde artistic movements in the fragmentary structure of the novel 2666, written by Roberto Bolaño and published post-mortem in 2004. Almost one century separates the Avant-Garde from Bolaño’s time. However, this study will demonstrate the similarities between them, and it will propose a new reading of the novel under the Avant-Garde criteria of literary creation, while that leads us to an original conception of discursive unity.

Speaker profile

Dr Raquel Bra Núñez received her PhD in 2015 for a doctoral thesis about the characters in the narrative work of Roberto Bolaño. She has also published journal articles and conducted seminars concerning the literary style of the Chilean writer. She joined the University of Sydney in 2022 as a Visiting Lecturer through a very competitive fellowship granted by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (MAEC) and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID). She also was a Visiting Lecturer at The University of Western Australia between 2019 and 2021.

Online & in person

Date: Thursday, 15 September

Time: 5pm

Venue: Rm 536 (SLC Common Room), A18 Brennan MacCallum Building, University of Sydney

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