Benjamin Loy is a professor of romance philology at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich in Germany. He is the editor of twelve books and more than fifty articles on modern and contemporary Latin American, Spanish, and French literature and cinema.Jordan Lee Schnee works in—and between—English, German, Yiddish, Spanish, and French. He teaches English literature at the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany.

• Abbreviations ixIntroduction 11 The Making of a Savage Reader: (Latin American) History and Literary Form 132 Origin of the Chilean Trauerspiel: Allegories of Art and Power in By Night in Chile 333 Dangerous Puzzles: Playing with Life and Death in Distant Star and Nazi Literature in the Americas 734 The (Il)legibility of the World: Chaos and Cosmos in 2666 and Woes of the True Policeman 118Conclusion: Last Words: Posthumous Bolaño 161Acknowledgments 167Notes 171Bibliography 197Index 208

"Through masterful close readings in dialogue with multiple literary, critical, and philosophical traditions, Loy illuminates how intertextuality in Bolaño's oeuvre is not just a rhetorical strategy, but a profound intervention in how we understand humanity through the experience of modernity. A remarkable, thought-provoking work." - Tania Gentic, coeditor of Imperialism and the Wider Atlantic: Essays on the Aesthetics, Literature, and Politics of Transatlantic Cultures"This remarkable book illuminates the intertextual networks structuring Bolaño's profound engagement with the traumatic persistence of historical violence. Loy's savage philological approach clears a necessary symbolic space to inscribe ourselves in the readerly communities where his characters and his readers can resist (or not) the bleak universe he depicts, and we recognize as our own." - Mariano Siskind, author of Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America

Benjamin Loy is a professor of romance philology at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich in Germany. He is the editor of twelve books and more than fifty articles on modern and contemporary Latin American, Spanish, and French literature and cinema.Jordan Lee Schnee works in—and between—English, German, Yiddish, Spanish, and French. He teaches English literature at the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany.

• Abbreviations ixIntroduction 11 The Making of a Savage Reader: (Latin American) History and Literary Form 132 Origin of the Chilean Trauerspiel: Allegories of Art and Power in By Night in Chile 333 Dangerous Puzzles: Playing with Life and Death in Distant Star and Nazi Literature in the Americas 734 The (Il)legibility of the World: Chaos and Cosmos in 2666 and Woes of the True Policeman 118Conclusion: Last Words: Posthumous Bolaño 161Acknowledgments 167Notes 171Bibliography 197Index 208

"Through masterful close readings in dialogue with multiple literary, critical, and philosophical traditions, Loy illuminates how intertextuality in Bolaño's oeuvre is not just a rhetorical strategy, but a profound intervention in how we understand humanity through the experience of modernity. A remarkable, thought-provoking work." - Tania Gentic, coeditor of Imperialism and the Wider Atlantic: Essays on the Aesthetics, Literature, and Politics of Transatlantic Cultures"This remarkable book illuminates the intertextual networks structuring Bolaño's profound engagement with the traumatic persistence of historical violence. Loy's savage philological approach clears a necessary symbolic space to inscribe ourselves in the readerly communities where his characters and his readers can resist (or not) the bleak universe he depicts, and we recognize as our own." - Mariano Siskind, author of Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America

Benjamin Loy is a professor of romance philology at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich in Germany. He is the editor of twelve books and more than fifty articles on modern and contemporary Latin American, Spanish, and French literature and cinema.Jordan Lee Schnee works in—and between—English, German, Yiddish, Spanish, and French. He teaches English literature at the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany.

• Abbreviations ixIntroduction 11 The Making of a Savage Reader: (Latin American) History and Literary Form 132 Origin of the Chilean Trauerspiel: Allegories of Art and Power in By Night in Chile 333 Dangerous Puzzles: Playing with Life and Death in Distant Star and Nazi Literature in the Americas 734 The (Il)legibility of the World: Chaos and Cosmos in 2666 and Woes of the True Policeman 118Conclusion: Last Words: Posthumous Bolaño 161Acknowledgments 167Notes 171Bibliography 197Index 208

"Through masterful close readings in dialogue with multiple literary, critical, and philosophical traditions, Loy illuminates how intertextuality in Bolaño's oeuvre is not just a rhetorical strategy, but a profound intervention in how we understand humanity through the experience of modernity. A remarkable, thought-provoking work." - Tania Gentic, coeditor of Imperialism and the Wider Atlantic: Essays on the Aesthetics, Literature, and Politics of Transatlantic Cultures"This remarkable book illuminates the intertextual networks structuring Bolaño's profound engagement with the traumatic persistence of historical violence. Loy's savage philological approach clears a necessary symbolic space to inscribe ourselves in the readerly communities where his characters and his readers can resist (or not) the bleak universe he depicts, and we recognize as our own." - Mariano Siskind, author of Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America