Amulet

Resumen del libro

Amulet is a monologue, like Bolaño's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becoming the "Mother of Mexican Poetry," hanging out with the young poets in the cafés and bars of the University. She's tall, thin, and blonde, and her favorite young poet in the 1970s is none other than Arturo Belano (Bolaño's fictional stand-in throughout his books).

As well as her young poets, Auxilio recalls three remarkable women: the melancholic young philosopher Elena, the exiled Catalan painter Remedios Varo, and Lilian Serpas, a poet who once slept with Che Guevara. And in the course of her imaginary visit to the house of Remedios Varo, Auxilio sees an uncanny landscape, a kind of chasm. This chasm reappears in a vision at the end of the book: an army of children is marching toward it, singing as they go. The children are the idealistic young Latin Americans who came to maturity in the '70s, and the last words of the novel are: "And that song is our amulet."

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