Distant Star EPUB
by Roberto Bolano, Chris Andrews
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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 Bolaño's darkest visions of Chile under Pinochet.
In Bolaño'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 Bolaño."
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- Pages:150 pages
- Publisher:New Directions
- Publication Date:17/12/2004
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- ISBN:9780811220521
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:150 pages
- Publisher:New Directions
- Publication Date:17/12/2004
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- ISBN:9780811220521