For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a college poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle becomes the silent hand behind every evil act in the darkness of Pinochet\'s regime. (He once described his n.
In Bolano\'s world there\'s a big graveyard and there\'s a big graveyard laugh.
A corrosive, mocking humor sparkles within Bolano\'s darkest visions of Chile under Pinochet.
The narrator, unable to stop himself, tries to track Ruiz-Tagle down, and sees signs of his activity over and over again.
For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a college poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle becomes the silent hand behind every evil act in the darkness of Pinochet\'s regime