{"title":"Roberto Bolaño","description":"Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealist poetry movement. His first full-length novel, The Savage Detectives, received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998. His other books include 2666, Last Evenings on Earth, and By Night in Chile. Roberto Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.","products":[{"product_id":"distant-star-paperback","title":"Distant Star - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[One] of his best.\" --Daniel Zalewski, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A masterpiece.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe year is 1971, or perhaps 1972, in Salvador Allende's Chile. Arturo B. is just one of a motley crew of young bohemians attending Juan Stein's poetry workshop at the University of Concepción when a mysterious newcomer by the name of Alberto Ruiz-Tagle arrives. Though Alberto's taciturn manner, patrician airs, and cold, distant poetry confound the group, he catches the attention of Veronica and Angelica Garmendia, the twin stars of the workshop. When Chile's government is toppled and replaced by a brutal military dictatorship, many of the young poets--among them, the Garmendia sisters--disappear, and Arturo is horrified to learn that Alberto, now revealed to be Carlos Wieder, an air force pilot and a darling of the new regime, may have something to do with it. Wieder's great ambition is to revolutionize Chilean poetry--to mythologize the new order in a spectacle of verse--and he takes to performing his poems in the skies above the Andes, using the sky as his paper and an old Nazi aircraft as his pen. But when Wieder takes his radical art a step too far, he, too, disappears without a trace. Decades later, Arturo, living in exile in Europe, and still preoccupied by the fates of his old classmates, is presented with an opportunity to track Wieder down--a journey that will lead him to one last encounter with the violence of their generation. A detective novel, a horror story, and a tragicomedy of global proportions, Roberto Bolaño's \u003ci\u003eDistant Star\u003c\/i\u003e is a haunting tale about the grotesque collisions of high art and politics, of idealism and brutality, and of hopes and reality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith a new introduction by Ben Lerner.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101921743071,"sku":"9781250352194","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/2IHvBA9NHz9781250352194.webp?v=1781075891"},{"product_id":"nazi-literature-in-the-americas-paperback","title":"Nazi Literature in the Americas - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Genius . . . [This] is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting knives.\" --Stacey D'Erasmo, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Imaginative, full of a love for literature, and . . . exceptionally entertaining.\" --Michael Dirda, \u003ci\u003e The Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNazi Literature in the Americas \u003c\/i\u003eis Roberto Bolaño's vertiginous, Borgesian journey into literature's most abysmal depths. In this mock encyclopedia of imaginary poets and novelists of the pan-American far right, we are met with a procession of literary mediocrities, sycophants, narcissists, hacks, and criminals, who share the dream of ushering in the Fourth Reich. Their portraits--rendered in sharp chiaroscuro--are every bit as brilliant, menacing, and alive as Bolaño's finest short stories. Wickedly funny and deep cutting, \u003ci\u003eNazi Literature in the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e is also a testament to the awesome power of literature: its capacity for obsession, delusion, and violence.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101924430047,"sku":"9781250352217","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/prY4PlUsWH9781250352217.webp?v=1781075897"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/roberto-bolano.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}