By Night in Chile

Roberto Bolaño

New Directions

2005

118 páginas

3h 56m

ISBN-13: 9780811215473

A deathbed confession revolving around Opus Dei and Pinochet, By Night in Chile pours out the self-justifying dark memories of the Jesuit priest Father Urrutia.

As through a crack in the wall, By Night in Chile's single night-long rant provides a terrifying, clandestine view of the strange bedfellows of Church and State in Chile. This wild, eerily compact novel―Roberto Bolano's first work available in English―recounts the tale of a poor boy who wanted to be a poet, but ends up a half-hearted Jesuit priest and a conservative literary critic, a sort of lap dog to the rich and powerful cultural elite, in whose villas he encounters Pablo Neruda and Ernst Junger. Father Urrutia is offered a tour of Europe by agents of Opus Dei (to study "the disintegration of the churches," a journey into realms of the surreal); and ensnared by this plum, he is next assigned―after the destruction of Allende―the secret, never-to-be-disclosed job of teaching Pinochet, at night, all about Marxism, so the junta generals can know their enemy. Soon, searingly, his memories go from bad to worse. Heart-stopping and hypnotic, By Night in Chile marks the American debut of an astonishing writer.

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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.