All'ombra dei buchi neri. Roberto Bolaño e la verità in letteratura

Abstract

This article explores the literary and philosophical dimensions of Roberto Bolaño’s work, with a particular focus on 2666, his monumental posthumous novel. Bolaño’s narrative is here analyzed as a unique interplay between rigorous formal precision and the inherent fragmentation of language, offering a profound meditation on the nature of truth, evil, and human existence. The metaphor of black holes is here employed by the author to conceptualize Bolaño’s depiction of inaccessible truths, shedding light on the dark recesses of experience through fragmented glimpses. By juxtaposing literary analysis with philosophical inquiry, the article examines how Bolaño dismantles traditional paradigms of detective fiction and academic narration, replacing them with a poetics of uncertainty and marginality. Ultimately, Bolaño’s oeuvre is presented as an existential investigation that resists closure, transforming literature into a space where the search for meaning is both an end itself and an act of resistance against definitive explanations.