ISBN 9780811215473 | 0811215474 Textbooks - "By Night in Chile" by Roberto Bolano Chris Roberto Bolao Roberto Roberto Bolao Roberto Bolano Roberto Andrews Chris Translator Andrews Roberto Bolao Roberto Bolano TranslatorChris Andrews

Authors: Roberto Bolano - Chris - Roberto Bolaño - Roberto - Roberto BolaÃ±o - Roberto. - Bolano…
ISBN 10: 0811215474
ISBN 13: 9780811215473
Format: Paperback (144 pages)
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A deathbed confession revolving around Opus Dei and Pinochet, By Night in Chile pours out the self-justifying dark memories of the Jesuit priest Father Urrutia.As through a crack in the wall, By Night in Chile's single night-long rant provides a terrifying, clandestine view of the strange bedfellows of Church and State in Chile. This wild, eerily compact novel—Roberto Bolano's first work available in English—recounts the tale of a poor boy who wanted to be a poet, but ends up a half-hearted Jesuit priest and a conservative literary critic, a sort of lap dog to the rich and powerful cultural elite, in whose villas he encounters Pablo Neruda and Ernst Junger. Father Urrutia is offered a tour of Europe by agents of Opus Dei (to study "the disintegration of the churches," a journey into realms of the surreal); and ensnared by this plum, he is next assigned—after the destruction of Allende—the secret, never-to-be-disclosed job of teaching Pinochet, at night, all about Marxism, so the junta generals can know their enemy. Soon, searingly, his memories go from bad to worse. Heart-stopping and hypnotic, By Night in Chile marks the American debut of an astonishing writer.

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