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Distant Star
A Literary Fiction Novel by Roberto Bolaño
Subgenres:
- Political Fiction,
- Chile under Pinochet,
- Dictatorship
This book is for you if you're into...
- Literary fiction set in the shadow of dictatorship
- Dark humor woven into stories of political brutality
- Obsessive pursuits of enigmatic, dangerous artists
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.
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