Research Guides: Roberto Bolaño (TriCo): Finding Books

Finding Books

Use TRIPOD to find books and other material owned by the Tri-College libraries.

Use WorldCat to find books not held by the Tri-College libraries.

In order to find books in either catalog, conduct either a relevant:

Keyword Search:

E.g., "Roberto Bolaño" AND (evil OR mal) [Tripod]

Mexico AND "roberto bolaño"

Pinochet AND (literature OR poetry OR fiction)

(See the Search Tips tab for more information on how to construct keyword searches.)

Or Subject Search:

E.g., Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003 [Tripod]

Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003 [WorldCat]

Latin American fiction 20th century History and criticism

(Use the Browse Books & More link or the Advanced Search function [limited to the subject field] to find additional subject headings.)

Tripod: Books & More
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The library catalog of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges. Use Tripod Books and More to find relevant books, journals, dissertations, films, and other material owned by the tri-college libraries. Click on the "request" button at the bottom of an item's record to have it delivered to Magill or another library.

WorldCat
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A catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries. Includes manuscripts, maps, films and sound recordings. Covers works published before 1,000 BC-present.

Borrowing Beyond the Tri-Co
Request items that are not available in Tripod through E-ZBorrow or Interlibrary Loan. Note that E-Z Borrow is the first place to look for books not in Tripod. It usually takes just three days for E-Z Borrow books to arrive. Books not in E-Z Borrow can come from Interlibrary Loan (ILL) which may take as little as four or five days to arrive.

For journal articles not available in the three colleges, use the Article Delivery form. In around 3 days you will receive a digital copy of the requested articles in your email.

Selected Books

Roberto Bolaño's Fiction: An Expanding Universe by Chris Andrews
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ISBN: 0231168063
Publication Date: 2014-07-29
Chris Andrews, a leading translator of Bolaño's work into English, explores the singular achievements of the author's oeuvre, engaging with its distinct style and key thematic concerns, incorporating his novels and stories into the larger history of Latin American and global literary fiction.
Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star: Critical Essays
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ISBN: 9781137495174
Publication Date: 2015-03-05
The first English-language volume of essays on Bolaño. Includes ten critical essays of his oeuvre, with a special emphasis on his masterpieces: 2666, The Savage Detectives, By Night in Chile, and Distant Star. They address topics such as Borges's influence and the role of repetition, social memory, allegory, and neoliberalism.
Roberto Bolaño: Violencia, escritura, vida
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ISBN: 9788484899174
Addresses from the perspective of cultural studies, themes and recurring motifs in the work of Bolaño: evil, violence and boundaries (geographic, cultural, human, etc.), associating them to the paradigm of biopolitics, the links between violence and writing and writing.
Pistas de un naufragio: cartografía de Roberto Bolan̋o by Bolognese, Chiara
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Publication Date: 2009
Roberto Bolaño, una narrativa en el margen: desestabilizaciones en el canon y la cultura by Ríos Baeza, Felipe
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Publication Date: 2013