By Roberto Bolaño
ISBN-10: 0811215865
ISBN-13: 9780811215862
The big name of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air strength pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to release his personal model of the hot Chilean Poetry, a multimedia company regarding sky-writing, poetry, torture, and picture exhibitions.
For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a school poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle turns into the silent hand in the back of each evil act within the darkness of Pinochet's regime. The narrator, not able to prevent himself, attempts to trace Ruiz-Tagle down, and sees symptoms of his job again and again. A corrosive, mocking humor flickers inside Bolano's darkest visions of Chile less than Pinochet. In Bolano's international there's a tremendous graveyard and there's a major graveyard snigger. (He as soon as defined his novel By evening in Chile as "a story of terror, a state of affairs comedy, and a mix pastoral-gothic novel.")
Many Chilean authors have written concerning the "bloody occasions of the early Pinochet years, the abductions and murders," Richard Eder commented within the The long island Times: "None has performed it in so darkish and glittering a way as Roberto Bolano."
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While the work refuses the language of adults (since its predominant lexicon avoids abstract terminology and consists of words that express the direct, concrete experiences of children), it does not yet declare war on the words/worlds of the Page 27 opponent as does, for example, Les Guérillères. As a matter of fact, the pronouncements of the adults are incorporated into the text on a number of occasions. However, because Wittig (perhaps affected by the work of Nathalie Sarraute) has eliminated the use of quotation marks or any other markers that differentiate what is said from what is told or that indicate a change in speaker (such as the dash in French), even the pronouncements of the adults can be considered to be filtered through the language of the children, and thus appropriated by the children.
However, her treatment of the question of language has the merit of simplicity and absence of jargon that characterizes her entire communication, and she appeals, once more, to the imaginative potential of her public. To begin with, language is defined as the primary ingredient of the writer's craft (that is, his/her "raw material"), and as such, it is comparable to the sculptor's clay, the painter's colors, or the musician's sounds. In order to differentiate words from these other raw materials though, Wittig again uses the key image of her text: Words are, each one of them, like the Trojan Horse.
Although some critics attribute Wittig's treatment of fictional time primarily to a refusal of "phallocentric" linear concepts,13 it seems more appropriate here to consider her obvious preference for a use of temporal notions that characterize childhood and are in contrast to those of adults. The latter, it has been pointed out, are inevitably associated with loss, degeneration, decrepitude, death, or what has been Page 14 described as the "fall into time, 14 while the child's experience emphasizes duration, continuity, endlessness, and an eternal present.
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