Michael Ley

Posted on 2013/11/13 by

Bootcamp: Character Driven Intertextual Networks: Los Detectives Salvajes

Branching out from of my first probe, I decided to take another crack at exploring intertextual networks. This time my (more focused) plan was to create a network diagram visualizing each of Juan García Madero’s contacts with fictional and non-fictional characters and texts in the opening section of Roberto Bolano’s Los Detectives Salvajes (1998). My goal was to see Read More

Posted on 2013/09/30 by

Narrative Multiplicity, Relative Beginnings and Discourse Networks

1966. Copies of Gregory Rabassa’s translation of Julio Cortázar’s Rayuela begins to circulate… Hopscotch receives critical and popular success for a literary work. Much attention relates to the book’s TABLE OF INSTRUCTIONS: In its own way, this book consists of many books, but two books above all.  The first can be read in a normal fashion and it ends Read More