{"product_id":"estrella-distante-distant-star-book-roberto-bolao-9780307476128","title":"Estrella distante \/ Distant Star","description":"\u003cb\u003eEl delirante y perturbador misterio de un impostor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e El narrador vio por primera vez a aquel hombre en 1971 o 1972, cuando Allende era aún Presidente de Chile. Escribía poemas distantes y cautelosos, seducía a las mujeres y despertaba en los hombres una indefinible desconfianza. Volvió a verlo después del golpe, pero en ese momento ignoraba que aquel aviador, que escribía versículos de la Biblia con el humo de un avión de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y el poeta, eran uno, y el mismo. Y así nos es contada la historia de un impostor, de un hombre de muchos nombres, sin otra moral que la estética, dandy del horror, asesino y fotógrafo del miedo, artista bárbaro que llevaba sus creaciones hasta sus últimas y letales consecuencias.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Novela clave en la obra de Roberto Bolaño, \u003cb\u003eEstrella Distante\u003c\/b\u003e es, además de un apasionante thriller intelectual, una escalofriante investigación sobre la mentalidad fascista y sus efectos en la sensibilidad literaria.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 narrator, unable to stop himself, tries to track Ruiz-Tagle down, and sees signs of his activity over and over again. A corrosive, mocking humor sparkles within Bolano's darkest visions of Chile under Pinochet. In Bolano's world there's a big graveyard and there's a big graveyard laugh. (He once described his novel By Night in Chile as \"a tale of terror, a situation comedy, and a combination pastoral-gothic novel.\")\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\"","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49582839890193,"sku":"GOR013688688","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50031885648145,"sku":"CIN030747612XG","price":7.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50346938401041,"sku":"CIN030747612XA","price":5.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51000766857489,"sku":"NIN9780307476128","price":18.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51469890289937,"sku":"CIN030747612XVG","price":6.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/030747612X.jpg?v=1751227517","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/estrella-distante-distant-star-book-roberto-bolao-9780307476128","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}