Distant Star
ISBN-13:
9780811215862
ISBN-10:
0811215865
Author:
Roberto Bolaño
Publication date:
2004
Publisher:
New Directions
Format:
Paperback
150 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780811215862
ISBN-10:
0811215865
Author:
Roberto Bolaño
Publication date:
2004
Publisher:
New Directions
Format:
Paperback
150 pages
Summary
Distant Star (ISBN-13: 9780811215862 and ISBN-10: 0811215865), written by authors
Roberto Bolaño, was published by New Directions in 2004.
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A chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship.
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 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.")
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 Bolano."
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