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The Avant-Garde after Bolano: Literature and Affects in Latin America studies how the paradigmatic impact of the Chilean author Roberto Bolano has reshaped and revitalized the idea of the avant-garde in Latin America. Not only did the publication of his novel Los detectives salvajes in 1998 achieve a global success that Latin American literature had not seen since the so-called Boom of the 1960s and figures such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. Bolano also introduced his readers to a fictionalized avant-garde group, Visceral Realism, which has become iconic enough to serve as a model for a younger generation of authors who emerged on the international scene in the 21st century. Adopting a Bolanesque lens to examine novels centred on the daily lives of groups of artists, by authors ranging from Julio Cortazar and Roque Dalton to Monica Ojeda and Alejandro Zambra, The Avant-Garde after Bolano shows that both precursors and continuators of Bolano have depicted the creation of communities and affects, rather than artworks or manifestos, as the specific way avant-gardes contribute to driving social change.