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And the Chilean star rises"  Roberto Bolaño (Santiago de Chile, April ,  -Barcelona, July , ) rose to international fame as the author of Los detectives salvajes (; The Savage Detectives, ), a novel that won the Herralde Prize () in Spain and the Rómulo Gallegos () in Venezuela. His ambiguous relationship with his native country, which he visited on three occasions after his family emigrated from Chile to Mexico in , remains intriguing. While the circumstances of Bolaño's life and early death have contributed to describing him as a "myth" and "legend," it is his first trip to Chile at age twenty, which coincides with the coup d'état on September , , that has primarily helped create his iconoclastic image. I aim here to offer a portrait of Bolaño in the context of the era and places in which he grew up. I have gathered information from diverse sources, including interviews with the author, testimonies from people who knew him, correspondence, and what he wrote in essays and texts recovered from his archive, alongside academic studies and journalistic reviews. I also refer to his three trips to Chile, particularly the first in , when he woul

Author

María Inés Lagos

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781108835671

Subjects

Romance, Humanities