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978-1-61148-607-0 • Hardback • December 2014 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
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Scott Weintraub is assistant professor of Spanish at the University of New Hampshire.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Invisibility of Juan Luis Martínez in the Chilean Scene of Writing
Chapter I: The Philosophy of the Book: La nueva novela’s Philosophical Poetics
Chapter II: The Book Within the Book: Math, Science and Politics in La nueva novela
Chapter III: The Death of the Poets: Mourning for the Future in La poesía chilena
Chapter IV: The Idea of the Double, Absence of an Author: Poemas del otro
Chapter V: The Copy as Original: Aproximación del Principio de Incertidumbre a un
proyecto poético
Conclusion: A Virtual Martínez and A Book Composed of Ruins and Detritus: El poeta
anónimo (o el eterno presente de Juan Luis Martínez)
Bibliography and Works Cited: Works by and about Juan Luis Martínez
Index
[This book] is the first study in English on the poetic production of Martinez. . . . Scott Weintraub succeeds with this study because it introduces the radical aesthetic of the poet in the English-speaking world and also carefully analyzes the key aspects of his literary output . . . We could say that the surprise text, text and unspeakable paradox text lines are synthesized and put into crisis the notion and coding of the poetry of Juan Luis Martinez.— A Contracorriente
The title of his study is completely appropriate, for Weintraub convincingly demonstrates how Martínez creates a philosophical poetics, which is also a poetic philosophy. Weintraub’s book will be the starting point for all future research on this poet, for it brings together insightful commentary on the most recently published additions to his oeuvre, includes detailed attention to history of its publication, particulars of the poet’s communication and dialogue with others, as well as a very extensive bibliography of works by or about this intriguing writer. Aside from its important contribution as a very comprehensive approach to Juan Luis Martínez as an artistic and intellectual figure, Weintraub’s study offers multiple approaches to the Chilean’s work.... Scott Weintraub’s book uncovers many implicit dialogues of an author whose work readers may find ranges from tricky to impenetrable, by demonstrating how Martínez played hide and seek with a range of philosophical and aesthetic ideas from very diverse fields. The fact that this is the first such monograph to approach his work in English may expand his readership beyond those interested in innovative poetry and philosophy in Chile and open Juan Luis Martínez’s inter-artistic poetic production to the kind of transnational readership implicit in the work itself.— Revista de Estudios Hispánicos