Generic hybridization in Los detectives salvajes. An approach to the poetics of Roberto Bolaño

Abstract

In Los detectives salvajes the construction of the story, which resignifies the narrative discourses of the chronicle, the testimonial novel, the diary, the police novel and autofiction, is an indication of Bolaño's authorial poetics. The tones and accents of these discursive forms recognizable in the structure of the text indicate the author's own poetics, in which generic hybridization, as a fundamental element in the composition of the novel, responds to a conscious intention on the part of the author to present an innovative vision regarding the new novelistic forms of contemporary Hispanic narrative.

Keywords

• autofiction
• chronicle
• discursive forms
• hybridization
• testimony