Adapting Bolaño’s 2666 for the Stage: Rigola (2007), Falls (2016), and Gosselin (2016)

• Autores: Anton Pujol
• Localización: Daring adaptations, creative failures and experimental performances in Iberian theatre / coord. por María del Pilar Chouza Calo, Esther Fernández Rodríguez, Jonathan Thacker, 2023, ISBN 1-80207-338-8, págs. 159-174
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • “La locura es contagiosa” [“Madness is Contagious”] (228) repeats Amalfitano, one of the many characters in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 (2004). Indeed, madness is one of the many recurrent motifs that are weaved into the very thick fabric of the 900-page novel. Moreover, as the reader discovers, madness spreads easily once it is unleashed and often with irreparable tragic consequences. Bolaño’s (b. 1953, Santiago de Chile; d. 2003, Barcelona) mammoth novel is not, as Marcela Valdes wrote, “for the faint of heart” (2015), not only because of its length but also because “charting its locations would yield something like an airline flight map...