Author: Roberto Bolaño
- Fiction
- Editorial Anagrama
- ISBN: 9788433977489
- Release Date: 11-12-2014
Synopsis
Sebastián Urrutia Lacroix, sacerdote del Opus Dei, crítico literario y poeta mediocre, revisa su vida en una noche de fiebre alta en la que cree que va a morir. Y en su delirio febril van apareciendo Jünger y un pintor guatemalteco que se deja morir de inanición en el París de 1943, un Pinochet al que el protagonista da clases de marxismo, el ya anciano pope de la crítica nacional, una misteriosa mujer en cuya casa se reúne lo más granado de la literatura chilena& , todo ello mientras en las calles de Santiago impera el toque de queda. Una novela escalofriante, imprescindible.
As through a crack in the wall, By Night in Chile'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 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 Junger. Father Urrutia is offered a tour of Europe by agents of Opus Dei; and he is next assigned -after the destruction of Allende- 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.
