By Night in Chile - Paperback
By Night in Chile - Paperback
by Roberto Bola?o (Author), Chris Andrews (Translator), Nicole Krauss (Introduction by)
"Extraordinary . . . [Bola?o's] greatest work." --James Wood, The New York Times
The book that catapulted Roberto Bola?o into international literary stardom, By Night in Chile is the final testimony of Sebasti?n Urrutia Lacroix--Chilean priest and member of Opus Dei, eminent literary critic and failed poet--as he is haunted by a shadowy figure from his past. In Urrutia's feverish last hours, a deluge of memories pours from him: of hobnobbing with Santiago's most unctuous literati; of undertaking a mission to save Europe's decaying cathedrals from existential threat by pigeon excrement; of retreating into Greco-Roman poetry during the darkest chapter of modern Chilean history; of tutoring Augusto Pinochet in Marxist theory, so that the General may better understand his enemies. Throughout he insists, with fracturing conviction, that he was always on the right side of history. A novel about high art and fascism, silence and complicity, and, ultimately, the weight of damnation, Roberto Bola?o's By Night in Chile is a deep-cutting satire and a work of devastating moral insight.Author Biography
Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) was the author of The Savage Detectives and 2666, among many other notable works. Born in Santiago, Chile, he later lived in Mexico City, Paris, and Barcelona. His accolades include the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Herralde de Novela Award, and the Premio Rómulo Gallegos. He died at the age of fifty and is widely considered to be the greatest Latin American writer of his generation.
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