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El delirante y perturbador misterio de un impostor

El narrador vio por primera vez a aquel hombre en 1971 o 1972, cuando Allende era aún Presidente de Chile. Escribía poemas distantes y cautelosos, seducía a las mujeres y despertaba en los hombres una indefinible desconfianza. Volvió a verlo después del golpe, pero en ese momento ignoraba que aquel aviador, que escribía versículos de la Biblia con el humo de un avión de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y el poeta, eran uno, y el mismo. Y así nos es contada la historia de un impostor, de un hombre de muchos nombres, sin otra moral que la estética, dandy del horror, asesino y fotógrafo del miedo, artista bárbaro que llevaba sus creaciones hasta sus últimas y letales consecuencias.

Novela clave en la obra de Roberto Bolaño, Estrella Distante es, además de un apasionante thriller intelectual, una escalofriante investigación sobre la mentalidad fascista y sus efectos en la sensibilidad literaria.

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"Bolaño se desenvuelve de modo divertido, inteligente y sarcástico en esa vertiente literaria que es juego de espejos entre verdad y mixtificación, entre realidad e ilusión, entre hechos y conjeturas, entre personajes apócrifos e históricos. --El mundo

"El estilo austero de Bolaño da a esta narración una precisión escalofriante, como si el desapego de su antiguo compañero se hubiera convertido en el de su país y en el suyo propio." --The New Yorker

About the Author

Roberto Bolaño nació en Santiago, Chile, en 1953. Pasó gran parte de su vida en México y en España, donde murió a la edad de cincuenta años. Es autor de numerosas obras de ficción, no ficción y poesía. Su libro Los detectives salvajes ganó el Premio Rómulo Gallegos de Novela y fue uno de los Mejores Libros del 2007 para The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times y The New York Times Book Review. En 2008, recibió póstumamente el Premio de Ficción del National Book Critics Circle por 2666.

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  • PublisherVintage Espanol
  • Publication date2010
  • ISBN 10 030747612X
  • ISBN 13 9780307476128
  • BindingPaperback
  • LanguageSpanish
  • Number of pages160

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Softcover. Condition: Good. El delirante y perturbador misterio de un impostorEl narrador vio por primera vez a aquel hombre en 1971 o 1972, cuando Allende era aún Presidente de Chile. EscribÃa poemas distantes y cautelosos, seducÃa a las mujeres y despertaba en los hombres una indefinible desconfianza. Volvià a verlo despuà s del golpe, pero en ese momento ignoraba que aquel aviador, que escribÃa versÃculos de la Biblia con el humo de un avià n de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y el poeta, eran uno, y el mismo. Y asà nos es contada la historia de un impostor, de un hombre de muchos nombres, sin otra moral que la està tica, dandy del horror, asesino y fotà grafo del miedo, artista bárbaro que llevaba sus creaciones hasta sus últimas y letales consecuencias.Novela clave en la obra de Roberto Bolao, Estrella Distante es, además de un apasionante thriller intelectual, una escalofriante investigacià n sobre la mentalidad fascista y sus efectos en la sensibilidad literaria.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONA chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship.The star of Roberto Bolano's 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 Pinochet's 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 Bolano's darkest visions of Chile under Pinochet. In Bolano's world there's a big graveyard and there's 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.". Seller Inventory # SONG030747612X

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