by Roberto Bolano

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Series:::: New Directions Paperbook+++Paperback:::: 150 pages+++Publisher:::: New Directions (December 2004)+++Language:::: English+++ISBN-10:::: 9780811215862+++ISBN-13:::: 978-0811215862+++ASIN:::: 0811215865+++Product Dimensions::::5.3 x 0.4 x 8 inches++++++ ISBN10 9780811215862 ISBN13 978-0811215

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Description: A chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship.The star of Roberto Bolanos 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 Pinochets 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 Bolanos darkest visions of Chile under Pinochet. In Bolanos world theres a big graveyard and theres 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.

An earlier, condensed version of DISTANT STAR appeared as the last story in Bolaños Nazi Literature in the Americas. Although I didnt particularly like Nazi Literature, the books last story, The Infamous Ramírez Hoffman, captivated me. When, then, I picked up DISTANT STAR years later, I experienced a small frisson of excitement in realizing that it is a greatly expanded re-telling of The Infamous Ramírez Hoffman, though the name of the monstrous Hoffman has been changed to Carlos Wieder.Putting aside that personal experience, and without regard to the earlier Ramírez Hoffman story, DISTANT STAR is brilliant. An anonymous first-person narrator (who almost surely is the who appears as the alter-ego of Bolaño in many of his works) recounts the story of Carlos Wieder. When he met Wieder around 1972, they were fellow students in two poetry workshops in Concepción in the socialist Chile of Salvador Allende. After the coup that put General Pinochet in charge, Wieder re- appeared as a pilot in the Chilean Air Force who via skywriting created poems in the sky (the motif that informs the tremendous cover of the book). Another aspect of Wieders performance art from that time was an exhibition of snapshots of people that he had murdered, most of them women, including two sisters who had been fellow-students in those poetry workshops.Going forward from 1974, the chief strand of DISTANT STAR traces news or rumors of Wieder over the years, including the time when he was involved in a French school of barbaric writers, up to his quiet exile in Spain -- where, in unusual, tension-packed circumstances, the narrator sees him in a café just before Wieders death. Two other strands track the subsequent lives of the two poets who led those workshops back in 1972. One, Juan Stein (a Jew and distant relative of the outstanding Soviet general Ivan Chernyakhovsky) went on to become a Chilean terrorist and global guerilla fighter for leftist causes. The other, Diego Soto, shuffled off to middle-class exile in Europe, until he was killed by some neo-Nazi youths in the train station in Perpignan, the same train station that is the setting for a famous (or infamous) painting by Salvador Dalí.The novel is mesmerizing. In it, Bolaño found his voice. (His next novel was .) On one level, it is a re-casting of the detective story. Along the way Bolaño includes numerous references to modern poets and writers (many of them unknown to me) from Latin America, Spain, and France, and the novel thereby appears to contain literary criticism of much Latin American and surrealist literature. It also is an unsettling picture of the turbulence of Pinochets Chile as well as the resulting Chilean diaspora. I strongly suspect, further, that it constitutes critical commentary on the anti-humanistic aspects of much performance art and avant-garde art (including that of Salvador Dalí). Finally, in my view, it is a morality tale to the effect that evil is endemic in man.

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