Vintage Classics Distant Star. by Roberto Bolaño
A spare, hallucinatory novella in which a poet-narrator obsessively traces the life of a charismatic classmate who morphs from avant‑garde writer to military pilot and instrument of a brutal regime; through fragmented reportage, personal memory and eerie set pieces—airborne performances, staged photographs and grisly evidence—the narrator uncovers how aesthetic ambition and political violence become indistinguishable, creating a dark meditation on complicity, disappearance and the afterlives of terror.
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- Published
- 1996
- Nationality
- Chilean
- Length
- Unknown
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- Original Language
- Spanish
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- Alternate Titles
- - Estrella distante
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