The The Bolaño-Panero Connection: madness and disenchantment

Abstract

Given that the work of Roberto Bolaño transforms real writers into fictional characters, this article studies the presence of Leopoldo María Panero, Spanish poet, in Bolaño’s novel 2666. Firstly, the paper shows that the poet of the Mondragon Asylum is much probably Panero. Secondly, the paper evinces the connections between Paneroarei aqui’s poetics, the madness and the disenchantment yielded by the postfranquist years. After that, Bolaño’s career is taken into account in order to disclose the fact that his poetics attachs itself to the disenchantment and the melancholy in the context of the violence during and after the Latin-american dictatorship states. At last, the article reveals the link between Lola and Panero and the link between Amalfitano and Bolaño considering the madness and the melancholy of the disenchantment.