By Night in Chile

Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix is dying. A priest, a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a poet, in his feverish delirium the crucial events of his past swell around him. From glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German writer Ernst Junger and his one-time student, General Pinochet, to nightmarish flashes of falcons and falconers, the Chilean landscape and faces of those now dead, reality and imagination crowd and clamber in pursuit of the ''wizened youth'' who still haunts Father Lacroix all these years later. TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS ''The wit, the horror, the ambition, the strangeness; Roberto Bolano''s work is a sprawling labyrinth of surprise, bold invention, and images that will live with you forever'' Chris Power ''Few are the writers who have mastered the alchemy of turning the trivial into the sublime, the everyday into adventure. Bolano is among the best at this diabolical skill'' Georgi Gospodinov, author of Time Shelter

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Roberto Bolano, Roberto Bolaño
• Con la collaborazione di: Andrews Chris (Traduzione), Chris Andrews (Traduzione)
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 05.09.2024
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi
• EAN: 9781784879587
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-958-7
• Numero di pagine: 144
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 13 x 20 x 1 cm
• Categorie: Satire, Chile, South America, Latin America, Translation, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Religious, FICTION / Satire, Pinochet, Pablo Neruda, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Priest, Narrative theme: Politics, Catholicism, Magical Realism, Literary fiction, Central America, FICTION / World Literature / Chile, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Novella (Short Novel), Satirical style / satire, funny books, contemporary fiction, best books of all time, top 10 bestsellers, ernst junger