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Benjamin Kunkel · In the Sonora: Roberto Bolaño

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Your 10-digit subscription number is above your name on the address slip and begins with 400. If you subscribed via the website, you can enter the order number from your subscription confirmation email in place of your subscription number. More search Options Browse by Subject Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago de Chile in 1953, moved with his family to Mexico City at the age of 15, and was inspired by the election of Salvador Allende to return to his native country five years later. In his short story ‘Dance Card’, which accords with the known facts of his life and does not present itself as fiction, Bolaño indicates that he hardly distinguished as a young man – if he ever did – between his politics and his love of poetry: ‘I reached Chile in August 1973. I wanted to help build socialism. The first book of poems I bought was Parra’s Obra Gruesa (Construction Work).’ He then bought another book by Nicanor Parra, the anti-rhetorical Chilean poet whose work Bolaño preferred

Vol. 29 No. 17 · 6 September 2007 In the Sonora Benjamin Kunkel Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Share Email Print 5291 words The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño , translated by Natasha Wimmer . Picador, 577 pp., £16.99, July 2007, 978 0 330 44514 6 Show More Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño , translated by Chris Andrews . Harvill, 277 pp., £15.99, April 2007, 978 1 84343 181 7 Show More Amulet by Roberto Bolaño , translated by Chris Andrews . New Directions, 184 pp., $21.95, January 2007, 978 0 8112 1664 7 Show More Show More Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiag

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