Distant Star
by Roberto Bolano
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appears in Skateboarding and Fiction.
The star of Roberto Bolaño's hairraising novel Distant Star is Alberto RuizTagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise involving skywriting, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions.For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a college poetry wo...
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appears in Skateboarding and Fiction.
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