Roberto Bolano Additional Author mixed material bibliography The Harvill Press 2003

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144 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 Bola�o'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 J�nger. 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. 1843430355 C2O library Online catalog (BETA) F BOLA Byni 3372 C2O library & collabtive (Comics & Graphic Novels; Fiction & Literature; Poe) 8000 ByNightInChileRobertoBo28464_f.jpg 3280 2015-01-02 09:50:52 2015-01-02 09:50:52 machine generated