Bolano, Roberto, 1953-2003 <br/><br/>
Distant star 
/ Roberto Bolaņo ; translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews. 
 - New York  : New Directions Pub.  , c2004. 
 - 149 p.  ; 21 cm. 
<br/><br/> A New Directions book. 
<br/><br/> 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," 
<br/><br/><br/>Translated from the Spanish to English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780811215862 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human rights---Chile----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Chile---History---20th century----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ8098.12.O38  / E813 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>LAS FIC BOL