By Night in Chile -

Roberto Bolaño

New Directions

2003

130 páginas

4h 20m

ISBN-13: 9780811215473

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life. He believes he is dying, and in his feverish delirium various characters, both real and imaginary, appear to him as icy monsters, as if in sequences from a horror film. Among them are the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German novelist Ernst Junger, and General Augusto Pinochet - whom Father Lacroix instructs in Marxist doctrine - as well as various members of the Chilean intelligentsia whose lives, during a period of political turbulence, have touched his own.

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4 (Muito bom)

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Gente que livro bom, que aula boa. Esse foi bem difícil de ler, mas tirando o final que ele se revelou como uma pessoa de posicionamentos políticos um tanto quanto duvidosos, o estilo de sequências de sonhos e toda a narrativa confusa e estilizada foi incrível de ler.

Não sei se ainda estou presa no Pedro Páramo, mas de certa forma, achei esse livro cheio de fantasmas.