Tuesday, November 03, 2009

News at Eleven: The market has its landlords,

like everything on this infected planet, and it's the landlords of the market who decide the mambo that you dance, whether it's selling cheap condoms or Latin American novels in the U.S. I say this because the central idea of [Sarah] Pollack's work is that behind the construction of the [Roberto] Bolaño myth was not only a publisher's marketing operation but also a redefinition of the image of Latin American culture and literature that the North American cultural establishment is now selling to the public.

from Guernica: Bolaño Inc.

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