{"product_id":"estrella-distante-distant-star-9780307476128","title":"Estrella distante \/ Distant Star","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe delusional and disturbing mystery of an impostor\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA key novel in Roberto Bolaño's work, \u003cb\u003eDistant Star\u003c\/b\u003e is, in addition to an exciting intellectual thriller, a chilling investigation into the fascist mentality and its effects on literary sensibility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ENGLISH DESCRIPTION \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor 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.\") \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMany 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16144082\"\u003eRoberto Bolaño\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage Espanol\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/11\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.06h x 5.24w x 0.49d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307476128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 030747612X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e Spanish\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC056000\"\u003eHispanic \u0026amp; Latino | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC025000\"\u003ePsychological\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoberto Bolaño\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLos detectives salvajes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e ganó el Premio Rómulo Gallegos de Novela y fue uno de los Mejores Libros del 2007 para \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post, Los Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003ey\u003ci\u003e The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e. En 2008, recibió póstumamente el Premio de Ficción del National Book Critics Circle por \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e2666\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Espanol","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45787204157615,"sku":"9780307476128","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9255\/8767\/files\/img_6422f12c-6970-4de4-8dde-0bfbe97ed085.jpg?v=1755688958","url":"https:\/\/www.correctionsbookstore.com\/es\/products\/estrella-distante-distant-star-9780307476128","provider":"Corrections Bookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}