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Many of Bolaño's novels can be, and often are, read with reference to their ingenious engagement with the histories of those two nations, Chile and Mexico, where he spent much of his life. Written long after his move from Mexico to Spain in  (nine years after leaving his native Chile), Distant Star (), The Savage Detectives (), Amulet (), and By Night in Chile () return, both directly and obliquely, to key events in both nations' historical unfolding in the second half of the twentieth century: to the CIA-backed coup that toppled Salvador Allende's government in September  and initiated the violent restructuring of the Chilean nation and state;  and to the repression of student and labour movements in  that helped consolidate the PRI's hegemony in post-Revolutionary Mexico.  However, while they make important contributions to the sensemaking of these events, and to national literary histories in which these events serve key historicizing functionscontributions not to be overlooked in enthusiastic identifications of Bolaño as the representative of a

Author

Rory O’Bryen

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781108835671

Subjects

Romance, Humanities