![]() ![]() Lacroix is a conservative man who is also a minor poet and literary critic. ![]() This novel, set in Chile and concerned with that country's political history, is told from the viewpoint of Father Sebastián Urrutia Lacroix as he is lying on his deathbed. Of all Bolaño's books, only one ( By Night in Chile) had been translated into English by the time of his death from liver failure in 2003 while waiting for a transplant. Although we know, of course, that in the human scale of things, persistence is an illusion and reason is only a fragile railing that keeps us from plunging into the abyss." The latter refers to the small bits and pieces that survive, that persist and to reason. The former alludes to reality-to the nightmare or benevolent dream that we call reality-which ends, in both cases, with death and the obliteration not only of literature, but of time. I mean, first, it's a reflection on politics, and second, it's also a political program. As he told Boullosa: "All literature, in a certain sense, is political. ![]() Penning stories that are often critical of or satirize society and politics in Latin America, Bolaño was considered a political writer, though the author himself denied that he had any "scores" to settle. ![]()
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