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Traveling Sovereignty: Counter-crossing Bolaño with Derrida

Traveling Sovereignty: Counter-crossing Bolaño with Derrida TRam NGuyeN Traveling Sovereignty Counter-crossingBolañowithDerrida Roberto Bolaño's 2666, a sprawling book of voyages which steals toward a body of disappearances and murders resembling the real life events of Ciudad Juárez (a Mexican town on the border of Texas) begins enticingly with the hunt for a mysterious author named Benno von Archimboldi by four European literary critics. The novel soon becomes estranged from itself and devolves, breaking off into numerous travel narratives. These narratives are interconnected but not entirely parts of the whole; instead, each section gathers to itself more displacements and hostilities of travel. Archimboldi is revealed in the final section of the book as a former Second World War soldier, drafted by the Third Reich. Yet this is not quite the kernel of the novel. The horror is not contained or containable to one single period of history or one narrative; it bleeds, ranges over time and space, and mutates biologically, physically, and politically. Unmoored, the reader must come to terms with a traveling sovereignty that brings about her potential and necessary catastrophe, for 2666 maintains its sovereignty by deploying the dual logic of hospitality and by violently destabilizing the event of reading so that the reader http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

Traveling Sovereignty: Counter-crossing Bolaño with Derrida

The Comparatist , Volume 36 (1) – May 19, 2012

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TRam NGuyeN Traveling Sovereignty Counter-crossingBolañowithDerrida Roberto Bolaño's 2666, a sprawling book of voyages which steals toward a body of disappearances and murders resembling the real life events of Ciudad Juárez (a Mexican town on the border of Texas) begins enticingly with the hunt for a mysterious author named Benno von Archimboldi by four European literary critics. The novel soon becomes estranged from itself and devolves, breaking off into numerous travel narratives. These narratives are interconnected but not entirely parts of the whole; instead, each section gathers to itself more displacements and hostilities of travel. Archimboldi is revealed in the final section of the book as a former Second World War soldier, drafted by the Third Reich. Yet this is not quite the kernel of the novel. The horror is not contained or containable to one single period of history or one narrative; it bleeds, ranges over time and space, and mutates biologically, physically, and politically. Unmoored, the reader must come to terms with a traveling sovereignty that brings about her potential and necessary catastrophe, for 2666 maintains its sovereignty by deploying the dual logic of hospitality and by violently destabilizing the event of reading so that the reader

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Published: May 19, 2012

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