Distant Star

Resumen del libro

An unnamed narrator attempts to piece together the life and works of an enigmatic would-be poet turned military assassin during Pinochet's regime in Chile. In the early 1970s Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was a little-known poet living in southern Chile. After the military coup of 1973 that brought in the dictatorship of General Pinochet, he embarked upon a new career that involved him in committing murder and other brutalities, and subsequently led to his emergence as a lieutenant in the Chilean air force under his actual name, Carlos Wieder. Some time later the narrator, now held in a prison camp, looks up and sees a World War II airplane writing the first words of the Book of Genesis in smoke in the sky. The aviator is none other Carlos Wieder, launching his own version of the New Chilean Poetry-Roberto Bolano's novel is a chilling investigation of the fascist mentality and the limits of evil, as seen in its effects on a literary sensibility, as well as a gripping intellectual thriller. It shows a great writer at the height of his powers.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Roberto Bolañox{0026}lt;/B (1953-2003), narrador y poeta chileno, es autor de libros de cuentos (x{0026}lt;I Llamadas telefónicas, Putas asesinas, El gaucho insufrible, Diario de barx{0026}lt;/I -en colaboración con A. G. Porta- y x{0026}lt;I Cuentos completosx{0026}lt;/I ), novelas (x{0026}lt;I Consejos de un discípulo de Morrison a un fanático de Joycex{0026}lt;/I -en colaboración con A. G. Porta-, x{0026}lt;I Monsieur Pain, La pista de hielo, La literatura nazi en América, Estrella distante, Los detectives salvajes, Amuleto, Nocturno de Chile, Amberes, Una novelita lumpen, 2666, El Tercer Reich, Los sinsabores del verdadero policíax{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I El espíritu de la ciencia-ficciónx{0026}lt;/I ), x{0026}lt;I nouvelles x{0026}lt;/I (x{0026}lt;I Sepulcros de vaquerosx{0026}lt;/I ), poesía (x{0026}lt;I Reinventar el amor, La Universidad Desconocida, Los perros románticos, El último salvaje, Tresx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Poesía reunidax{0026}lt;/I ) y libros de no ficción (x{0026}lt;I A la intemperiex{0026}lt;/I ).x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P Está considerado una de las figuras más importantes de la literatura contemporánea en español. Fue galardonado, entre otros, con los premios Rómulo Gallegos, Salambó, Altazor, National Book Critics Circle Award y Ciudad de Barcelona.x{0026}lt;/P