Date of Award
2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelors
Department
Humanities
First Advisor
Portugal, Jose Alberto
Area of Concentration
Humanities with Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Abstract
This thesis builds its arguments on a short reading of the translated short-story collection, Last Evenings on Earth, by Roberto Bolaño. In my first chapter, I examine aspects of the author’s life as presented through non-fictional works to make clear the ideologies that are reflected in his narrative material. The second chapter elucidates on exile as an aesthetic concept and historical condition of the self, I understand this as a framework to interpret the set of short stories by Roberto Bolaño. I describe the visual components of the narration, the narrative structure, and the links they tend with the author’s life history. I will describe the various ways in which altering perspectives are understood as the core of a visual reflection that runs through Roberto Bolaño’s literature into the personages and narrations of exile, that approaches them in their distance, uprooting and alienation. The final section of this thesis is a reflection of my own creative work and how I see Bolano’s stylistic devices emerge in a visual context. Finally, I present my own work (adapted script) itself.
Recommended Citation
Jimenez, Sofia, "In Search for a Truer Sense of Experience: Two Approaches in Roberto Bolaño’s Storytelling" (2022). Theses & ETDs. 6180.
https://digitalcommons.ncf.edu/theses_etds/6180