Roberto Bolaño: Difference between revisions

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'''Roberto Bolaño''' (1953 – 2003) was a Chilean writer and poet. He originally wrote poetry, but changed to write fiction for [[Money Dear Boy|money]] (after all, he had a family to feed). He had a kind of tendency of taking an [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] from one book (or sometimes just a minor character) and write a story around that character.

'''Roberto Bolaño''' (1953 – 2003) was a Chilean writer and poet. He originally wrote poetry, but changed to write fiction for [[Money, Dear Boy|money]] (after all, he had a family to feed). He had a kind of tendency of taking an [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] from one book (or sometimes just a minor character) and write a story around that character.

Even though he was from Chile, he spent very little time in the country and lived in Spain. He was also very critical of the writers in Chile, particularly [[Isabel Allende]], decrying their (perceived) lack of talent. Which makes him somewhat of a [[Base Breaker]] among Chilean readers.

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* [[Reclusive Artist]]: Not Bolaño himself, but the character Benno von Archimboldi in ''2666''.

* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: “Police Rat”.

* [[Shell Shocked Veteran]]: The protagonist in “Jim”.

* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: The protagonist in “Jim”.

* [[Spin Offspring]]: “Police Rat” has as main character Pepe the Cop, niece of [[Franz Kafka|Josephine the Singer]].

* [[The Reason You Suck Speech]]: ''By Night In Chile'' is this to other Chilean writers during the Pinochet years.

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: ''By Night In Chile'' is this to other Chilean writers during the Pinochet years.

* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: Deconstructed in ''Nazi Literature In The Americas''. Nazis and Neo-Nazis tend to appear on his books, whether literally (''Distant Star'') or metaphorically (''The Third Reich'').

* [[Wasteland Elder]]: Héctor Pereda in “The Insufferable Gaucho”.

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