Del infrarrealismo al realismo visceral dentro del marco de la contracultura en Los detectives salvajes de Roberto Bolaño

Del infrarrealismo al realismo visceral dentro del marco de la contracultura en Los detectives salvajes de Roberto Bolaño

The Savage Detectives has autobiographical aspects of Roberto Bolaño, among which the infrarrealismo is essential, which appears as realismo visceral in the novel. The infrarrealismo as a countercultural phenomenon was a literary movement founded by Bolaño and Santiago Papasquiaro in the mid-70s in Mexico, whose purpose was to reject the ruling Mexican culture symbolized by Octavio Paz and to search for a different life and alternative poetics. Bolaño reflects this historical context in The Savage Detectives in which iconoclastic poets, realvisceralistas, reject the institutional territory of culture.So this article, observing both literary movements, one real and the other fictional, focuses on reading the poetics of them within the context of the Mexican counterculture.