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by Roberto Bolaño (Author)

El delirante y perturbador misterio de un impostor

El narrador vio por primera vez a aquel hombre en 1971 o 1972, cuando Allende era a n Presidente de Chile. Escrib a poemas distantes y cautelosos, seduc a a las mujeres y despertaba en los hombres una indefinible desconfianza. Volvi a verlo despu s del golpe, pero en ese momento ignoraba que aquel aviador, que escrib a vers culos de la Biblia con el humo de un avi n de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y el poeta, eran uno, y el mismo. Y as nos es contada la historia de un impostor, de un hombre de muchos nombres, sin otra moral que la est tica, dandy del horror, asesino y fot grafo del miedo, artista b rbaro que llevaba sus creaciones hasta sus ltimas y letales consecuencias.

Novela clave en la obra de Roberto Bola o, Estrella Distante es, adem s de un apasionante thriller intelectual, una escalofriante investigaci n sobre la mentalidad fascista y sus efectos en la sensibilidad literaria.

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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.

Author Biography

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.

Number of Pages: 160
Dimensions: 0.49 x 8.06 x 5.24 IN
Publication Date: July 11, 2017

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