Doubt, hesitation, failure: notes on the action and the suspension in Roberto Bolaño’s Nocturno de Chile
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Doubt, Hesitation, Faiture, Nocturno de Chile, Roberto BolañoAbstract
This paper takes the presence of the doubt on the foundation of written traditions, as observed within ancient myths and philosophies among western civilization, as a starting point in order to observe its ubiquity in the novel Nocturno de Chile (2000), by Roberto Bolaño, and also as an essential motive for the narrator’s life, the priest Urrutia/Ibacache. His actions and memories, moved by the anxiety of uncertainty, are suspended and paralyzed all the time by this destabilizing tension. The doubt that informs the character radiates through the whole narrative and it is itself a corecreator of hesitation and failure, some other aspects that suspend the priest’s narrative. This paper also proposes a hypothesis: the doubt as a relevant topos for contemporary literature, suggesting attention for its place as a foundational theme for the modern man.
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