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Distant star / Roberto Bolaño ; translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews.

By:

Bolano, Roberto, 1953-2003

Contributor(s):

Andrews, Chris

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : New Directions Pub. , c2004.Description: 149 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780811215862

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

LAS FIC BOL

LOC classification:

PQ8098.12.O38 E813 2004

Abstract: 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,"

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS FIC BOL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		047821

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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.

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