Down the Rabbit Hole (2011)
“On the one hand, it is now possible to see this Boom as having a past and a future. Its past was Borges, sure, but also Roberto Arlt and Felisberto Hernández and Macedonio Fernández; while the future is the fiction of Roberto Bolaño and Alan Pauls, Rodrigo Fresán and Ricardo Piglia. The past and future of this Boom represents a sequence of deft experiments. But there is something else to this sudamericano map: a sequence of market forces. As well as an array of experiments, there is also an arr...ay of pulp genres. And the most conspicuous of these is the one called narcoliteratura. Narcoliteratura is druglords and guns and girls. It is a corrupt and lurid politics.
And while it might at first look like this miniature novel by the Mexican novelist Juan Pablo Villalobos belongs to the second category of literary history – the pulp category of narcoliteratura, since its protagonists are a druglord and his psychopathic minions – it really belongs to the first: the history of experiments.MoreLess
And while it might at first look like this miniature novel by the Mexican novelist Juan Pablo Villalobos belongs to the second category of literary history – the pulp category of narcoliteratura, since its protagonists are a druglord and his psychopathic minions – it really belongs to the first: the history of experiments.MoreLess
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