Nulley-Valdes, Thomas2026-06-192026-06-1997831122399029783112239919https://hdl.handle.net/1885/733811625This chapter considers the authorial trajectory of Americanised Chilean writer Alberto Fuguet across national, regional (Latin American) and international (US) fields of reception. Fuguet, like many writers before him, deployed a series of artistic strategies to become a world author, yet failed in his ambitions. Rather than seeing this as a failure, Nulley-Valdés considers it a form of “trajectory of productive failure,” that is, a way in which authors exchange and reinvest international symbolic capital for national symbolic capital at a surplus value, permitting Fuguet entry into a newly woven Chilean literary tradition he played a role in reforming.17en2026-06-0110.1515/9783112239919-014