Homage to Bolaño, a “Latin American son of the Enlightenment”

The Secretary of State for Culture vindicates the writer’s importance as key to literature in Spanish. “The world is alive and nothing that lives has remedy.

That is our fate.” That’s how the writer Roberto Bolaño (Santiago de Chile, 1953-Barcelona, 2003) responded to a question about the fate of the world in the by now celebrated interview he granted, a few days before his death, to the Mexican edition of Playboy.  Those words were recalled by the Secretary of State for Culture, José María Lassalle, in a homage to the author inaugurating the course, “Roberto Bolaño: Distant Star”, offered by the International University Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP) of Santander.  “Bolaño makes possible a great literature that collides with the parameters of the society of spectacles prevailing in our time,” affirmed the politician, who pointed to the author of novels such as The Savage Detectives or Distant Star as the key name for understanding literature in Spanish in its transit to the 21st century.

Read more here - El País

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