![]() ![]() It is also significant that their respective involvements with Joyce’s work was preceded in both cases by an effervescent avant-gardist period: Borges played a pivotal role in the founding and consolidation of the Spanish avant-garde movement Ultraísmo, while Bolaño has been hailed as the founder of Infrarrealismo, a neo-avant-garde minor poetic movement dubbed as ‘dadá a la mexicana’. ![]() The first part of this article focuses on Borges’s and Bolaño’s formative years as writers, a period during which both openly and self-consciously endorse a Joycean aesthetic: Borges with his pioneering 1925 review of Ulysses and historic Spanish translation of ‘Penelope’, and Bolaño with his lavishly entitled debut novel, Consejos de un discípulo de Morrison a un fanático de Joyce (1984 Advice from a Disciple of Morrison to a Joyce Fanatic), which offers a contemporary, hardboiled version of Joyce, where literature communes with the world of drugs, alcohol, sex, and rock and roll. ![]()
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