Distant star
Bolano, Roberto, 1953-2003
Distant star / Roberto Bolaño ; translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews. - New York : New Directions Pub. , c2004. - 149 p. ; 21 cm.
A New Directions book.
The star of Roberto Bolano's novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions. For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a college poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle becomes the silent hand behind every evil act in the darkness of Pinochet's regime. The narrator, unable to stop himself, tries to track Ruiz-Tagle down, and sees signs of his activity over and over again. A corrosive, mocking humor sparkles within Bolano's darkest visions of Chile under Pinochet. In Bolano's world there's a big graveyard and there's a big graveyard laugh. Many Chilean authors have written about the "bloody events of the early Pinochet years, the abductions and murders,"
Translated from the Spanish to English.
9780811215862
Human rights---Chile----Fiction
Chile---History---20th century----Fiction
PQ8098.12.O38 / E813 2004
LAS FIC BOL
Distant star / Roberto Bolaño ; translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews. - New York : New Directions Pub. , c2004. - 149 p. ; 21 cm.
A New Directions book.
The star of Roberto Bolano's novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions. For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a college poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle becomes the silent hand behind every evil act in the darkness of Pinochet's regime. The narrator, unable to stop himself, tries to track Ruiz-Tagle down, and sees signs of his activity over and over again. A corrosive, mocking humor sparkles within Bolano's darkest visions of Chile under Pinochet. In Bolano's world there's a big graveyard and there's a big graveyard laugh. Many Chilean authors have written about the "bloody events of the early Pinochet years, the abductions and murders,"
Translated from the Spanish to English.
9780811215862
Human rights---Chile----Fiction
Chile---History---20th century----Fiction
PQ8098.12.O38 / E813 2004
LAS FIC BOL
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