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by Roberto Bolano (Author), Chris Andrews (Translator) "This is going to be a horror story ..." (more)
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Bolaño's work fugues again and again around the confluence of fugitive literary movements and tumultuous political upheavals of '60s and '70s Mexico and Chile. Originally from Montevideo, poet Auxilio Lacouture cleans house in Mexico City for two well-known poets and hangs about the university literary scene doing odd jobs. In September 18, 1968, as the army occupies the campus, arresting and killing people, Auxilio is in the deserted bathroom stalls, obliviously reading poetry; later she becomes famous for being the only one who resists arrest that fateful day. Over years without fixed address or employment, she loses her teeth and befriends the teenage Arturo Belano. Belano eventually returns to Chile at the time of the Allende coup and is imprisoned by Pinochet—a political initiation author Bolaño experienced himself. Auxilio's first-person narration serves as a medium for lost young voices of revolution, such as the elusive, limping Elena, the Catalan painter Remedios Varo, and Lilian Serpas, who claims she slept with Che Guevara. Auxilio's lyrical prophecies converge in a wrenching tribute to all the voices she has known, tinged with Bolaño's luminous pathos. (Jan.)
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There is a haze in Bolaño's work, a sort of hallucination that hinges on prosaic vision. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Latin American Apocalypse, Mar 26 2009
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Latin America is to Bolaño what Ireland is to Joyce: his great subject because he hates it as much as he loves it (but after all, you can only hate what you really care about). And he hates Latin America - with a special place in his heart for Mexico - for pretty much Joyce's reason for hating Ireland: its capacity for betraying its heroes.

The heroes of this extended interior monologue are the young poets of Mexico as recalled by their self-styled 'Mother', a quixotic woman hiding out at a University closed down by troops with tanks in the autumn of '68. As she waits for whatever is going to happen next, and gradually enters a starvation-induced delirium, her mind moves outward from this crucial moment, between memories of her young friends and the best of the older generation of poets, between real and imagined encounters, and between past, present and future, eventually arriving at a Latin American apocalypse: the final betrayal of its youth.

The author's effortless, seamless blending of the 'real' and the surreal recalls Kafka's best short stories - with a dash of Blake's vigorous poetry and imagery. Bolaño may well be the surrealists' one fruitful literary heir, and the greatest explorer of inner states since Kafka.
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