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Chris Andrews Roberto Bolaño Distant Star (Paperback)
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- Publication Name
- Distant Star
- Title
- Distant Star
- ISBN-10
- 0811215865
- EAN
- 9780811215862
- ISBN
- 9780811215862
- Release Date
- 20/12/2004
- Release Year
- 2004
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 203mm
- Item Length
- 137mm
- Item Width
- 13mm
- Item Weight
- 184g
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Distant Star
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Classics, War & Military, Literary, Political
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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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Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0811215865
ISBN-13
9780811215862
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30782217
Product Key Features
Book Title
Distant Star
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Classics, War & Military, Literary, Political
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Fiction
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
6.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq8098.12.O38e813
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[Distant Star is a] true masterpiece that will remain one of the key readings of contemporary literature, 'eoeIn the end, Distant Star offers a composite picture of a nation turned upside down, allowing Bolaño to ask what the function of art is in such context.Bolaño's literature is about silences and absences, about reevaluating national memory. As today's Chile moves to distance itself from the atrocities of the military period, it is forced to confront the ghosts of its past. In Bolaño's able hands, those treacherous ghosts have universal value.'e�, In the end, Distant Star offers a composite picture of a nation turned upside down, allowing Bolano to ask what the function of art is in such context.Bolano's literature is about silences and absences, about reevaluating national memory. As today's Chile moves to distance itself from the atrocities of the military period, it is forced to confront the ghosts of its past. In Bolano's able hands, those treacherous ghosts have universal value.
Copyright Date
2004
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2004-019033
Dewey Decimal
863/.64
Dewey Edition
22
Number of Pages
150 Pages
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