By Night In Chile

Zusatztext

<p>During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life. He believes he is dying and in his feverish delirium various characters, both real and imaginary, appear to him as icy monsters, as if in sequences from a horror film.</p><p>Thus we are given glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German writer Ernst Junger, General Pinochet, whom Father Lacroix instructs in Marxist doctrine, as well as various members of the Chilean intelligentsia whose lives, during a period of political turbulence, have touched upon his.</p><p>By the author of<i>2666.</i></p>

Autorenportrait

Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile in 1953 and died in Catalonia in 2003. He was widely regarded as the essential Latin American writer of our age. He was best known for his novels (including<i>The Savage Detectives</i>, which won a number of prestigious literary awards,<i>Nocturno de Chile</i>, translated as<i>By Night in Chile</i>, and<i>2666,</i>which won the National Book Critics Circle Award) and his short stories,<i>Last Evenings on Earth</i>.

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