Nocturno de Chile
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788433924643 (8433924648)
Publish date: October 31st 2013
Publisher: Anagrama
Pages no: 152
Edition language: Spanish
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Religion,
Contemporary,
Spanish Literature,
Latin American,
Latin American Literature
By Night in Chile is part confession, part stream of consciousness, and raises the question of whether or not you can believe what you are told. At times it is engrossing, but other times frustrating.
14/10 - Goodness! This whole book, all 118 pages of it is one long chapter, and one loooong paragraph. There isn't a single break in the text from beginning to end. This is slightly annoying because there is absolutely no natural place to put the book down, you just have to stop in the middle of the...
So I have this friend who writes books. He used to read books too, until one day he found himself in a relationship and stopped. He told me once that I would probably like his last book, the conversation went something like:Me: Bitch, when did you publish this last book, and why don't I have a copy?...
By night in Chile is only 130 pages long & reads as though it’s a single paragraph, as though the Father drew breathe once and spilt his guts, pouring out memories, some reworked, some wished for, some justifying, vindicating himself, in the end to the only one left to him - Sebastian Urrutia Lacroi...
In Bolaño's stream of consciousness narrative, he presents the deathbed confessions of Father Sebastián Urrutia Lacroix, a Jesuit in Chile who also wrote as a literary critic and a poet. Through a spellbinding combination of feverish memories and anecdotes, dreams and nightmares recalled, and desper...
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