The Last Interview and Other Conversations
By Night in Chile During the course of a single night, Fatherr Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life. This title offers glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German writer Ernst Junger,...
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By Night in Chile During the course of a single night, Fatherr Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life. This title offers glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German writer Ernst Junger, General Pinochet, whom Father Lacroix instructs in Marxist doctrine. Full description
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781933633831 (1933633832)
Publish date: November 10th 2009
Publisher: Melville House
Pages no: 123
Edition language: English
I decided to re-read this one in anticipation of Bolaño’s Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003 says of Bolaño: In his literary beginnings, in Mexico City, he led the foundation of the Infrarrealistas (the ones he calls Visceral Realists in his novel The Savage Detectives hav...