Bolaño: A Biography in Conversations
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The first biography of Chilean novelist Roberto Bolano, whose Savage Detectivesand 2666were bestsellers in the U.S. Written by a noted magazine writer who knewand interviewed Bolano.
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How to know the man behind works of fiction so prone to extravagance? In the first biography of Chilean novelist and poet Roberto Bolano, journalist Monica Maristain tracks Bolano from his childhood in Chile to his youth in Mexico and his early infatuation with literature, to his beginnings as a poet, and to the stardom that came with the publication of the novels The Savage Detectivesand 2666.
Bolano: A Biography in Conversationsis assembled from a series of rich interviews with the people who knew Bolano best: we meet Bolano's first publisher, who printed 225 copies of his first book of poetry; glimpse the young author through interviews with his parents and an array of childhood friends, who watched a precocious young man turn into an obsessive writer who barely left the house; and witness the birth of Bolano's famed Infrarealist literary movement. The book also sheds new light on aspects of Bolano's life that have long been shrouded in mystery: for the first time, we learn the details of Bolano's fatal illness and the drama of his final days.
Throughout the book, Maristain present an image far removed from the stereotypes that have been created over the years to introduce a writer whose works grabbed readers worldwide. Maristain writes as a journalist and admirer, impressed with the power of Bolano's prose and the cool irony with which he faced the literary world.
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