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Nocturno de Chile / By Night in Chile - by Roberto Bolaño (Paperback)

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  • Una imprescindible y escalofriante novela donde el talento del autor de 2666 y Los detectives salvajes brilla en todo su esplendor.
  • About the Author: Roberto Bolaño nació en Santiago, Chile, en 1953.
  • 160 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary

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About the Book



Published in 2000, the first edition of this work also bore this ISBN.



Book Synopsis



Una imprescindible y escalofriante novela donde el talento del autor de 2666 y Los detectives salvajes brilla en todo su esplendor.

Sebastián Urrutia Lacroix, sacerdote y crítico literario, miembro del Opus Dei y poeta mediocre, convencido de que está a punto de morir, revisa en una sola noche de fiebre alta los momentos y personajes más importantes de su vida.

Pero a medida que la noche avanza su fiebre va remitiendo y el delirio se atenúa con la aparición de los monstruos de su pasado. Así van desfilando por el libro una serie de personajes pintados con el surrealismo típico de Bolaño: los ambiguos Oido y Odeim; un pintor guatemalteco que se deja morir de inanición en el París de 1943; Farewell, el pope de la crítica literaria chilena; María Canales, una mujer misteriosa en cuya casona de las afueras se reúne lo más granado de la literatura; y el general Pinochet, a quien Urrutia Lacroix dio clases de marxismo.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A deathbed confession revolving around Opus Dei and Pinochet, By Night in Chile pours out the self-justifying dark memories of the Jesuit priest Father Urrutia.

As through a crack in the wall, By Night in Chile's single night-long rant provides a terrifying, clandestine view of the strange bedfellows of Church and State in Chile. This wild, eerily compact novel―Roberto Bolano's first work available in English―recounts the tale of a poor boy who wanted to be a poet, but ends up a half-hearted Jesuit priest and a conservative literary critic, a sort of lap dog to the rich and powerful cultural elite, in whose villas he encounters Pablo Neruda and Ernst Junger. Father Urrutia is offered a tour of Europe by agents of Opus Dei (to study "the disintegration of the churches," a journey into realms of the surreal); and ensnared by this plum, he is next assigned―after the destruction of Allende―the secret, never-to-be-disclosed job of teaching Pinochet, at night, all about Marxism, so the junta generals can know their enemy. Soon, searingly, his memories go from bad to worse. Heart-stopping and hypnotic, By Night in Chile marks the American debut of an astonishing writer.



Review Quotes




"Un maravilloso torrente de emoción, una meditación histórica brillante, una fantasía cautivadora. Nocturno de Chile es uno de esos raros y auténticos prodigios: una novela contemporánea destinada a ocupar para siempre un lugar en la literatura universal". --Susan Sontag

"La posguerra chilena y la literatura imbuyen esta inteligente y ricamente evocadora novela. La narrativa febril de Bolaño y sus ocasionales toque surrealistas nos recuerdan a los clásicos latinoamericanos del Realismo Mágico". --The New York Times



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.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.06 Inches (H) x 5.24 Inches (W) x .48 Inches (D)
Weight: .36 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Literary
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Number of Pages: 160
Publisher: Vintage Espanol
Format: Paperback
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Language: Spanish
Street Date: July 11, 2017
TCIN: 93677130
UPC: 9780307476135
Item Number (DPCI): 247-11-9901
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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