Rodrigo López Martínez

Looking forward to visiting the Centre of Latin American Studies at Cambridge in November, when I’ll give a presentation about a few of the novelists studied in my book, The Avant-Garde after Bolaño.

“When you chew the meat of your prey, you understand you got the better of it, and for this, you deserve to savour what you pursued and slaughtered”. From On Earth As It Is Beneath, by Ana Paula Maia, published in translation in 2026 by Charco Press.

“¿Voy bien, Gardel? Decíme que voy bien, Gardel, lo necesito, y ahora más que nunca. ‘Bien, Rodolfo’. ‘Gracias, Gardel’. No me queda más que la palabra, en realidad nunca tuve otra propiedad”. De la obra de teatro de David Viñas, “Rodolfo Walsh y Gardel”, estrenada en 1993.

A beautiful visit to Trinity College Dublin to participate in the conference “Rodolfo Walsh Across Borders”, where I presented an upcoming article on “Rodolfo Walsh y Gardel”, a theatre play by David Viñas.

I wrote a few comments on my blog about “La vida secreta de Roberto Bolaño” (2024), by the Spanish author Montero Glez, and the challenges of being iconoclastic towards Bolaño without yielding to the centripetal force of his narrative world. bolanistas.com/the-not-so-se…

“¿Qué haríamos sin los estandartes, sin las Patagonias, sin los naufragios? Un mundo de granjeros con la sonrisa en los labios. Hemos luchado por él, pero lo único importante era luchar.” La rosa en el viento, de Sara Gallardo, publicada en 1979, reeditada en 2020.

¡Que 20 años son casi nada, son mucho!

New publication! How has the celebration of Almodóvar as a trendy icon rewritten the political overtones of his early cinema? My latest article in Hispanic Review: muse.jhu.edu/article/947984

Lovely evening at the @TCLCTdublin learning about the Mexican author Reyna Grande and her latest work on historical fiction.

Just published in @StudiesinSLAC! My new article about psychoanalysis and cinema in Argentina, exploring what the therapy session has to tell us about the middle-class subject and its ambivalent stance toward social change: doi.org/10.1386/slac_00105_1

Más que recomendado el viaje con @golosinacanibal por los rincones del indispensable Lado B de la literatura argentina 🫡

Loved attending @SLASLatAm in Amsterdam and presenting my upcoming book on Bolaño and the Bolañistas. Especially the moment of saying hi to Spinoza!

¡A ver al ventrílocuo y dejarse hablar por el muñeco, quienes se atrevan!

Un lujo: mis vacaciones en Argentina coincidieron con la última clase de Daniel Link en Puán.

Primer día en Buenos Aires y gracias a los amigos @JoseRetik y @golosinacanibal ya vengo leyendo en serio.

It’s been a joy to present my research on psychoanalysis and literature at @LASACONGRESS while getting to know Bogotá!

Back in Ireland after a wonderful couple of days in Birmingham for the #AHGBI2024 conference! It was great seeing friends and colleagues and discussing my upcoming book on the rereadings and rewritings of Bolaño.

Starting the year with good news, I was awarded a travel grant to attend the conference of @LASACONGRESS. ¡Vamos a Colombia!

El miércoles presento un adelanto de mi libro 'La vanguardia después de Bolaño' en el marco de este ilustre homenaje bolañesco. Ya quisiera estar paséandome por Buenos Aires, por lo pronto estaré desde el YouTube del MALBA.