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By Night in Chile

Roberto Bolaño

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 2000
Originally in
Originally in Spanish
Pages
Pages 290

On his deathbed, a Chilean priest, poet, and literary critic talks through one feverish night to prove his life was decent, and his confession pours out as a single unbroken paragraph that never once lets you look away. He tutored the generals of the junta in Marxism, so they might better know the enemy they were disappearing.

I am dying now, but I still have many things to say.
By Night in Chile, Roberto Bolaño

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