About the book
Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix is dying.
A priest, a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a poet, in his feverish delirium the crucial events of his past swell around him.
From glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German writer Ernst Junger and his one-time student, General Pinochet, to nightmarish flashes of falcons and falconers, the Chilean landscape and faces of those now dead, reality and imagination crowd and clamber in pursuit of the ‘wizened youth’ who still haunts Father Lacroix all these years later.
TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS
‘The wit, the horror, the ambition, the strangeness; Roberto Bolaño’s work is a sprawling labyrinth of surprise, bold invention, and images that will live with you forever’ Chris Power
‘Few are the writers who have mastered the alchemy of turning the trivial into the sublime, the everyday into adventure. Bolaño is among the best at this diabolical skill’ Georgi Gospodinov, author of Time Shelter
Editions of By Night in Chile
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781784879587
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780099459392
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781784876920
- EBook
- ISBN 9781446442333
- EBook
- ISBN 9781529926125
Read an Excerpt
Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix is dying.
A priest, a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a poet, in his feverish delirium the crucial events of his past swell around him.
From glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German writer Ernst Junger and his one-time student, General Pinochet, to nightmarish flashes of falcons and falconers, the Chilean landscape and faces of those now dead, reality and imagination crowd and clamber in pursuit of the ‘wizened youth’ who still haunts Father Lacroix all these years later.
TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS
‘The wit, the horror, the ambition, the strangeness; Roberto Bolaño’s work is a sprawling labyrinth of surprise, bold invention, and images that will live with you forever’ Chris Power
‘Few are the writers who have mastered the alchemy of turning the trivial into the sublime, the everyday into adventure. Bolaño is among the best at this diabolical skill’ Georgi Gospodinov, author of Time Shelter
Frequently Asked Questions
What is By Night in Chile about?
Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix is dying.
A priest, a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a poet, in his feverish delirium the crucial events of his past swell around him.
From glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German writer Ernst Junger and his one-time student, General Pinochet, to nightmarish flashes of falcons and falconers, the Chilean landscape and faces of those now dead, reality and imagination crowd and clamber in pursuit of the ‘wizened youth’ who still haunts Father Lacroix all these years later.
TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS
‘The wit, the horror, the ambition, the strangeness; Roberto Bolaño’s work is a sprawling labyrinth of surprise, bold invention, and images that will live with you forever’ Chris Power
‘Few are the writers who have mastered the alchemy of turning the trivial into the sublime, the everyday into adventure. Bolaño is among the best at this diabolical skill’ Georgi Gospodinov, author of Time Shelter
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in By Night in Chile?
Fiction > Fiction: literary and general non-genre > Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Where can I read a sample of By Night in Chile?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781784879587
Who is/are the Author/s of the book By Night in Chile?
Roberto Bolaño
Who is the Publisher of the book By Night in Chile?
Random House
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
By Night in Chile is available as paperback(ISBN 9781784879587) and paperback(ISBN 9780099459392) and paperback(ISBN 9781784876920) and ebook(ISBN 9781446442333) and ebook(ISBN 9781529926125)
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