false 63031 10 A deathbed confession revolving around Opus Dei and Pinochet, <I>By Night in Chile</I> pours out the self-justifying dark memories of the Jesuit priest Father Urrutia. <P>As through a crack in the wall, <I>By Night in Chile</I>'s single night-long rant provides a terrifying, clandestine view of the strange bedfellows of Church and State in Chile. This wild, eerily compact novel&#151;Roberto Bolaño's first work available in English&#151;recounts the tale of a poor boy who wanted to be a poet, but ends up a half-hearted Jesuit priest and a conservative literary critic, a sort of lap dog to the rich and powerful cultural elite, in whose villas he encounters Pablo Neruda and Ernst Jünger. Father Urrutia is offered a tour of Europe by agents of Opus Dei (to study "the disintegration of the churches," a journey into realms of the surreal); and ensnared by this plum, he is next assigned&#151;after the destruction of Allende&#151;the secret, never-to-be-disclosed job of teaching Pinochet, at night, all about Marxism, so the junta generals can know their enemy. Soon, searingly, his memories go from bad to worse. Heart-stopping and hypnotic, <I>By Night in Chile</I> marks the American debut of an astonishing writer. 659819 book 2000 By Night in Chile total:699|5:191|4:284|3:169|2:46|1:9| 699 2699 1124 133 5 5 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 07 15:32:24 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 09:48:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 04 03:03:49 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 24 00:14:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 22:03:18 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 22:08:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Jul 17 12:13:29 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 20 15:30:25 -0700 2007
The book was good, but never really gripped me. A somewhat stream-of-consciousness death-bed confe...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 08:13:06 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 08:13:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 09:11:59 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 14:52:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 14:51:59 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 14:55:58 -0800 2009 By Night in Chile, the story of Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, poet, and ascendant literary critic. Urrutia is approached by Mr. Raef and Mr. Etah, two shadowy figures who commission him to travel across Europe, ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 20:26:11 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 21:11:49 -0700 2009
Before I get carried away and start nailing Bolaño's corpse to the ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 14:58:45 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 16:11:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 14:42:48 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 01:05:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 21:12:04 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 00:52:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 14:18:25 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 16:32:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 23:40:33 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 04:10:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 08:52:44 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 10:48:39 -0700 2009 By Night In Chile is no exception, but my desire to go through this novel again is perhaps stronger than the feeling I've had for any other Bolaño book. It's written as a single 13...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 20:43:28 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 09:12:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 04:19:42 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 05:15:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Apr 01 11:38:01 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 11:38:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Feb 21 17:25:14 -0800 2009 Fri Jun 19 12:45:58 -0700 2009
Also, if I remember corre...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 16 06:59:31 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 17 19:43:01 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 01 06:11:58 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 11 14:40:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=63031