Digresión y subersión del género policial en Estrella distante de Roberto Bolaño

Abstract

This article analyzes the use of digression in the novel Estrella distante (1996), by Roberto Bolaño, as a narrative strategy that by drifting away from a subject, subverts the characteristic rules of the detective genre. As a resistance technique to any kind of order, digression displaces a mystery focused on the crimes of Carlos Wieder, a murder poet during the Chilean dictatorship, into an inaccessible area dominated by the horror. In harmony with the artistic vanguard referred in the novel, digression not only deforms the figure of crime and the signs that guide the detective on the investigation, but also infinitely expands the narrative as variations and diffuse reflections of a story that eventually becomes impossible to tell.