In Bola o’s world there’s a big graveyard and there’s a big graveyard laugh.
A corrosive, mocking humor sparkles within Bola o’s darkest visions of Chile under Pinochet.
The narrator, unable to stop himself, tries to track Ruiz Tagle down, and sees signs of his activity over and over again. 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 star of Roberto Bola o’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.
Heart stopping and hypnotic, By Night in Chile marks the American debut of an astonishing writer.Ī chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship. Soon, searingly, his memories go from bad to worse. 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. 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. 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. 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.
0 kommentar(er)
