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Bolaño: On the Edge of the Precipice | Mark Ford | The New York Review of Books

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A Roberto Bolaño piece of some four and a half pages collected in The Return begins, "Once, after a conversation with a friend about the mercurial nature

Mathieu Bourgois Roberto Bolaño, Paris, 2002 A Roberto Bolaño piece of some four and a half pages collected in The Return begins, “Once, after a conversation with a friend about the mercurial nature of art, Amalfitano told a story he’d heard in Barcelona.” This was written in 1997, six years before Bolaño died in 2003. Like a number of Bolaño’s characters, Amalfitano appears in more than one of the Chilean writer’s fictions; readers of 2666, his last major novel, published in English in 2009, will know him as the melancholy professor of literature in Santa Teresa (based on Ciudad Juarez)…

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