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By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño
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By Night in Chile

by Roberto Bolaño

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Un uso extremadamente sofisticado del lenguaje, una pena que el contenido no este a la altura del continente. ( )
  emed0s | Nov 8, 2009 |
  books4micks | Oct 16, 2009 |
  living2read | Oct 16, 2009 |
tiene secciones muy buenas, de mucha resonancia pero la novela no termina de cuajar. el cuento de los heroes y el tour de iglesias que usaban halcones son excepcionales. lo demas, meh. ( )
1 vote mejix | Jun 23, 2009 |
A beautifully written short novel about the often uncomfortable relationship between artists and rulers. ( )
  jorgearanda | Jun 22, 2009 |
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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0811215474, Paperback)

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 Bolaño'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 Jünger. 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.

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