By Night in Chile
  • Published: 1 September 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099459392
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $27.99

By Night in Chile

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This highly imaginative novella is a masterpiece of its type and one of the finest early works by legendary Chilean writer, Roberto Bolaño.

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life. He believes he is dying and in his feverish delirium various characters, both real and imaginary, appear to him as icy monsters, as if in sequences from a horror film.

Thus we are given glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German writer Ernst Junger, General Pinochet, whom Father Lacroix instructs in Marxist doctrine, as well as various members of the Chilean intelligentsia whose lives, during a period of political turbulence, have touched upon his.

By the author of 2666.
  • Published: 1 September 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099459392
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $27.99
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About the author

Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953, and died in 2003 in Spain. He is widely regarded as one of the foremost Latin American novelists of his generation and his work has won him numerous literary prizes.

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Praise for By Night in Chile

One of the greats of late 20th- and early 21st-century fiction

Guardian

The Chilean is being canonised by critics as the first great writer of this century

Financial Times

One of the most respected and influential writers of [his] generation... At once funny and vaguely, pervasively, frightening

John Banville, The Nation

The most important writer to emerge from Latin America since Garcia Marquez

San Francisco Chronicle

Bolaño is the brightest literary star in the current Latin American panorama

El Pais