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A chilling novel about the problem of the corrupt and brutal dictatorship. The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air push pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to release his own version of the brand new Chilean Poetry, a multi-media enterprise including sky-writing, poetry, torture, and picture exhibitions. For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a university poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle becomes the silent side behind every evil act in the darkness of Pinochet's program. The narrator, struggling to stop himself, attempts to trail Ruiz-Tagle down, and perceives signs or symptoms of his activity over and over again. A corrosive, mocking laughter sparkles within Bolano's darkest visions of Chile under Pinochet. In Bolano's world there's a major graveyard and there's a major graveyard have fun. (He once identified his novel By Nights in Chile as "a tale of terror, a situation comedy, and a blend pastoral-gothic novel.") Many Chilean authors have discussed the "bloody happenings of the first Pinochet years, the abductions and murders," Richard Eder commented in The NY Times: "None has done it in so dark and glittering a fashion as Roberto Bolano."
