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The year 2018 will mark the fifteenth anniversary of Roberto Bolaño's passing. Beyond any doubt, the critical praise for the Chilean author's fiction, both in its original Spanish and in its multiple translations—including English, which gave rise to Bolaño's 2008 National Book Critics Award for Fiction—has overwhelmingly exceeded that given to any one of his contemporaries.¹

Although secondary literature has indeed proliferated in the decade since his death, critical vacuums are still present, especially when searching for a philosophical analysis of Bolaño's work.² Such an analysis, however, should not be considered an obscure academic recherché, for according to Bolaño himself…