The Star in this hair-raising novel is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an Air Force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup in Chile to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise that symbolizes the darkness of Pinochet\'s regime. (He once described his novel By Night in Chile as a tale of terror, a situation comedy, and a combination pastoral-gothic novel.) Many Chilean authors have written about the bloody events of the early Pinochet years, the abductions and murders, Richard Eder commented in the The New York Times : None has done it in so dark and glittering a fashion as Roberto Bolano..
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.
The Star in this hair-raising novel is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an Air Force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup in Chile to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise that symbolizes the darkness of Pinochet\'s regime
