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Chris Andrews claimed A chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship.The star of Roberto Bolaño´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 Bolaño´s darkest visions of Chile under Pinochet. In Bolaño´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 Bolaño.´
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