{"id":254876,"date":"2007-08-22T18:30:10","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T18:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/08\/22\/the-canonization-of-roberto-bolano\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:46","slug":"the-canonization-of-roberto-bolano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/08\/22\/the-canonization-of-roberto-bolano\/","title":{"rendered":"The Canonization of Roberto Bola\u00f1o"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garth Risk Hallberg has a solid overview of Bola\u00f1o and why he matters at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillionsblog.com\/2007\/08\/why-bolano-matters.html\">The Millions<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In American literature, experimentalism is kept like a domesticated animal. For twenty-two hours a day, it sleeps under the kitchen table. Occasionally, when we get bored, we trot it out and put it through its tricks to remind ourselves that, hey, we&#8217;re as hip as the next guy. But an avant-garde novel is never going to change the way we see the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Well, <i>The Savage Detectives<\/i> blew my pessimism all to hell. Aiming to usurp the throne of literature from Octavio Paz (and, later, Gabriel Garcia Marquez), Roberto Bolano produced something unselfconsciously yet distinctly his own.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garth Risk Hallberg has a solid overview of Bola\u00f1o and why he matters at The Millions: In American literature, experimentalism is kept like a domesticated animal. For twenty-two hours a day, it sleeps under the kitchen table. Occasionally, when we get bored, we trot it out and put it through its tricks to remind ourselves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,4926,756,4916,3536],"class_list":["post-254876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-garth-risk-hallberg","tag-roberto-bolano","tag-savage-detectives","tag-the-millions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363026,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254876\/revisions\/363026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}