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In the address he gave in  on receiving the Rómulo Gallegos Prize, Roberto Bolaño declared that "to a great extent everything that I've written is a love letter or a farewell letter to my own generation."  But what was that generation, and what experiences shaped it? Bolaño was born on April ,  in Santiago, Chile, a year he later described as that of the deaths of Stalin and the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (). And it was that combination of politics and literature that defined his experience of the Cold War, as he and his cohort grew into adulthood in some of its darkest years in Latin America.The Cold War, at its most rudimentary, was a contest for global leadership between the United States and the Soviet Union. It began under a nuclear cloud, the U.S. having used atomic weapons over Japan in August . The Second World War over, in February  Stalin gave a speech in which he blamed the outbreak of the Second World War on inevitable frictions in monopoly capitalism, which was widely interpreted as a prediction of future conflict with the capitalist "West." The next month, Winston Churchill declared that an "iron curtain" had descended across Europe. By March , P

Author

Patrick Iber

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781108891226

Subjects

Romance, Humanities

Rating

3.8 / 5 (35 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14