Emancipatory Queerness in the Work of Roberto Bolaño, by Erika Almenara

Book Reviews Antoine-François-Jean Claudet, [Multiple Exposures of the Moon] (1846–52), daguerreotype, 2019.47, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel / Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Queer Exposures: Sexuality and Photography in Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction and Poetry (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), by Ryan F. Long, is an innovative and original text that addresses Bolaño’s work through the lenses of photography and queerness. Along the way, Long reveals several paradigms that shed new light not only on our understanding of Bolaño’s literary production but also on queerness. To use one of the key terms that organizes the book, Queer Exposures keeps its reader a la intemperie as the ideas, thoughts, and new meanings it proposes imply a re-signification and questioning of our own ways of understanding literature, revolution, vulnerability, and queerness. Not only this, but Queer Exposures is a book written from the vulnerability of the scholar who puts himself a la intemperie, opening to a different kind of research experience while reading and organizing the constellations of meaning and thought that are established in its analysis of the multiple texts by Bolaño (1953–2003). Queer Exposures is written from the conviction that analyzing Bolaño’s work must accept as its starting point that this work is unstable and impermanent. This is what Long calls the queerness of... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

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