Descripción
The delusional and disturbing mystery of an impostor The narrator first saw that man in 1971 or 1972, when Allende was still President of Chile. He wrote distant and cautious poems, seduced women and aroused an indefinable distrust in men. He saw him again after the coup, but at that moment he was unaware that the aviator, who wrote Bible verses with the smoke of a World War II plane, and the poet, were one and the same. And so we are told the story of an impostor, of a man of many names, with no other morality than aesthetics, a dandy of horror, a murderer and photographer of fear, a barbaric artist who carried his creations to their ultimate and lethal consequences. A key novel in Roberto Bolaño's work, Distant Star is, in addition to an exciting intellectual thriller, a chilling investigation into the fascist mentality and its effects on literary sensibility.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship.
The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising 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. (He once described his novel By Night in Chile as "a tale of terror, a situation comedy, and a combination pastoral-gothic novel.") Many Chilean authors have written about the "bloody events of the early Pinochet years, the abductions and murders," Richard Eder commented in the The New York Times: "None has done it in so dark and glittering a fashion as Roberto Bolano."
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Publisher: Vintage Espanol
Published: 07/11/2017
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.24w x 0.49d
ISBN13: 9780307476128
ISBN10: 030747612X
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Hispanic & Latino | General
- Fiction | Psychological
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship.
The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising 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. (He once described his novel By Night in Chile as "a tale of terror, a situation comedy, and a combination pastoral-gothic novel.") Many Chilean authors have written about the "bloody events of the early Pinochet years, the abductions and murders," Richard Eder commented in the The New York Times: "None has done it in so dark and glittering a fashion as Roberto Bolano."
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Publisher: Vintage Espanol
Published: 07/11/2017
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.24w x 0.49d
ISBN13: 9780307476128
ISBN10: 030747612X
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Hispanic & Latino | General
- Fiction | Psychological
About the Author
Roberto Bolaño nació en Santiago, Chile, en 1953. Pasó gran parte de su vida en México y en España, donde murió a la edad de cincuenta años. Es autor de numerosas obras de ficción, no ficción y poesía. Su libro Los detectives salvajes ganó el Premio Rómulo Gallegos de Novela y fue uno de los Mejores Libros del 2007 para The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times y The New York Times Book Review. En 2008, recibió póstumamente el Premio de Ficción del National Book Critics Circle por 2666.