It was announced some time ago and did not disappoint expectations: Incidentally, the collection of essays, articles and speeches by Roberto Bolaño is an event for all lovers of the great Chilean writer , whose death at the age of 50 in 2003 remains one of the highest losses big to world literature. Published in Italy by Adelphi, perhaps a cover price a bit 'too high, the book is a sort of side B of the work of Bolaño's fiction, but insists on the same vinyl, the same incandescent and magnetic field feeds memorable books as Nazi Literature in America or The Savage Detectives. The editor Ignacio Echevarria has selected writings that appeared between 1998 and 2003, and has divided the book into six main parts, preceded by a brief and followed by a self-portrait of the last interviews granted by Bolaño before he died. " "All the texts collected here - adds Echevarria - were written 'in brackets', ie in the margin of incessant creative activity that inevitably emerges from these pages "and that, with the latest masterpiece 2666 confirmed Bolaño" absolutely out of the series as a novelist, decisive ".
For those who know and love the voice of Bolaño, even the seemingly minor stories, texts brackets are like a homecoming. Only he can indeed write about the contemporary Argentine literature: "It has three lines of reference. Two are known. The third secret is . Well, this secret way, This ability to be obsessive and distant, are the hallmark of the Chilean writer, for which the writing quality is "being able to poke my head in the darkness, to be able to jump into the void, knowing that literature is basically a dangerous profession." All those feelings that we read (and the same writer tells us "are much happier when I read that when I write") of the novels and stories of Bolaño we have raised an obvious but often obscure, here they find their place in line , which increases the player the feeling of having always had the eyes that truth, not to have noticed, perhaps stunned by the wonder of the literary page.
The amount of suggestions Bolaño's writing is enormous, we can choose only some quotes: "Every item in self exile literature, no matter who the writer was forced to leave in twenty years or has never been moved to home. Probably the first exiles to which we know about Adam and Eve were . One is reminded of the Bible, of course, but also Kafka, who told his internal exile as an employee in a large insurance company and died for not having to live in exile of the body that would represent Auschwitz. Borges, Neruda, Gombrowicz, Dick, Joyce, in the papers in Bolaño parade the big names of world literature together in many South American authors little known to us, but beware, reminds us of the Chilean the first requirement of a masterpiece is go unnoticed. Minutes of the maze you go out just to get another, and so on. If we wanted to try to find a still point in all this sea of \u200b\u200buncertainty and pain - that shines through the many references to the Pinochet dictatorship - perhaps we could choose Bolaño's reaction after a meeting with the beloved poet Nicanor Parra though: "The best thing scram to do is run, the best thing is to find a way out of that pit and asymmetric cut the rope in silence, while steps Nicanor resonate up and down the corridor. " Read Bolaño, broadly speaking, is a wonderful experience of this type.
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