The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multi-media enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions. For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a college poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle becomes t...
The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multi-media enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions. For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a college poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle becomes the silent hand behind every evil act in the darkness of Pinochet's regime. The narrator, unable to stop himself, tries to track Ruiz-Tagle down, and sees signs of his activity over and over again. A corrosive, mocking humor sparkles within Bolano's darkest visions of Chile under Pinochet. In Bolano's world there's a big graveyard and there's a big graveyard laugh. (He once described his novel By Night in Chile as "a tale of terror, a situation comedy, and a combination pastoral-gothic novel.") Many Chilean authors have written about the "bloody events of the early Pinochet years, the abductions and murders," Richard Eder commented in the The N.Y. Times, reviewing By Night in Chile: "None has done it in so dark and glittering a fashion as Roberto Bolano."
“Bolano offers a comfortable choice for U.S. readers, offering both the pleasures of the savage and the privileges of the civilized"; read it over an extended period, so it wasn't a coherent experienc...“Bolano offers a comfortable choice for U.S. readers, offering both the pleasures of the savage and the privileges of the civilized"; read it over an extended period, so it wasn't a coherent experience; the story is distracted at time by stories of individual poets; yet discrete story don't piece together either; more interesting is "poetry" as exp(展开)
我一个朋友说他觉得波拉尼奥更适合中文而不是英文,当时他用了遥远的星辰举例子。我发现我虽然不同意但没办法反驳他,因为我没读过英文版遥远的星辰,所以就找来读了一下。而一旦开始读,争论就再也无关紧要了(或者按照他的说法,只是细枝末节)。distant star 几乎具有波拉尼奥小说的一切元素,双胞胎姐妹,散落世界的潦倒诗人,迷惘的文学评论家,智利军事政变,两百个女人的凶案,地下电影(或者说地下电影的拍摄...我一个朋友说他觉得波拉尼奥更适合中文而不是英文,当时他用了遥远的星辰举例子。我发现我虽然不同意但没办法反驳他,因为我没读过英文版遥远的星辰,所以就找来读了一下。而一旦开始读,争论就再也无关紧要了(或者按照他的说法,只是细枝末节)。distant star 几乎具有波拉尼奥小说的一切元素,双胞胎姐妹,散落世界的潦倒诗人,迷惘的文学评论家,智利军事政变,两百个女人的凶案,地下电影(或者说地下电影的拍摄场景),和主线无关的轶事,两个波拉尼奥……但只有这一部出现了维德尔,鲨鱼维德尔,路西法维德尔,站在波拉尼奥对立面的维德尔(他把诗写在天上而波拉尼奥在同期的智利之夜里说文学是灰尘——都指向轻盈但一个向上一个下沉),用撕碎的方式重塑文学但实际上很可能终结文学的维德尔,亲爱的波拉尼奥从没能共情的维德尔(展开)
0 有用 zhy 2022-01-13 22:15:46
沉浸在英语阅读的环境里大于享受故事本身。但是还是被其中一段打动,感觉叙述者身处的动荡社会环境有一种荒谬的力量永恒存在着。权力,支配者,势力,神秘的人物和暴力和所谓的平和与轮回。
0 有用 joesy 2016-01-17 19:55:27
Sad and sinister
0 有用 pippin 2016-04-26 01:25:20
啊啊啊啊啊一星给读书拖延的自己
0 有用 芦笋 2017-03-16 11:34:39
“Bolano offers a comfortable choice for U.S. readers, offering both the pleasures of the savage and the privileges of the civilized"; read it over an extended period, so it wasn't a coherent experienc... “Bolano offers a comfortable choice for U.S. readers, offering both the pleasures of the savage and the privileges of the civilized"; read it over an extended period, so it wasn't a coherent experience; the story is distracted at time by stories of individual poets; yet discrete story don't piece together either; more interesting is "poetry" as exp (展开)
0 有用 弗兰茨的女学生 2022-08-09 19:04:57
我一个朋友说他觉得波拉尼奥更适合中文而不是英文,当时他用了遥远的星辰举例子。我发现我虽然不同意但没办法反驳他,因为我没读过英文版遥远的星辰,所以就找来读了一下。而一旦开始读,争论就再也无关紧要了(或者按照他的说法,只是细枝末节)。distant star 几乎具有波拉尼奥小说的一切元素,双胞胎姐妹,散落世界的潦倒诗人,迷惘的文学评论家,智利军事政变,两百个女人的凶案,地下电影(或者说地下电影的拍摄... 我一个朋友说他觉得波拉尼奥更适合中文而不是英文,当时他用了遥远的星辰举例子。我发现我虽然不同意但没办法反驳他,因为我没读过英文版遥远的星辰,所以就找来读了一下。而一旦开始读,争论就再也无关紧要了(或者按照他的说法,只是细枝末节)。distant star 几乎具有波拉尼奥小说的一切元素,双胞胎姐妹,散落世界的潦倒诗人,迷惘的文学评论家,智利军事政变,两百个女人的凶案,地下电影(或者说地下电影的拍摄场景),和主线无关的轶事,两个波拉尼奥……但只有这一部出现了维德尔,鲨鱼维德尔,路西法维德尔,站在波拉尼奥对立面的维德尔(他把诗写在天上而波拉尼奥在同期的智利之夜里说文学是灰尘——都指向轻盈但一个向上一个下沉),用撕碎的方式重塑文学但实际上很可能终结文学的维德尔,亲爱的波拉尼奥从没能共情的维德尔 (展开)
0 有用 Loro 2024-06-16 00:15:32 北京
天上诗水上神,的确是Nazi Lit那本,"the Bible was 'open' poetry", 也是他很多本:寻人、尸堆、古希腊。所有人在La Peña看天空中文字时,神秘、尊重、忧愁,真像DeLillo那篇"The Angel Esmeralda"幽灵随光闪动的时刻。鬼使神差的是,Norberto说的也没错,天上是the Second returning (Wieder), return... 天上诗水上神,的确是Nazi Lit那本,"the Bible was 'open' poetry", 也是他很多本:寻人、尸堆、古希腊。所有人在La Peña看天空中文字时,神秘、尊重、忧愁,真像DeLillo那篇"The Angel Esmeralda"幽灵随光闪动的时刻。鬼使神差的是,Norberto说的也没错,天上是the Second returning (Wieder), returning(Wieder), returning (Wieder). 结尾平静,所以让人充满了恨,不断把火车错看成雨。 (展开)
0 有用 李斯特钟 2023-06-20 08:08:28 福建
读中文版更像是在读我的命运. 读英文版像在读故事.
1 有用 Henry Porter 2023-02-24 21:45:10 中国香港
波拉尼奥没必要写明的,Wieder就是重复是反复是那些终将会重返的,哪些终将会重返的?就是那些会一再被错过的呀,soto被黑的那么惨,但soto的结局我的最爱之一,他遇见了自己的命运,他没有错过他的他的犯罪报道那个属于他的重返,何止是soto没有错过他的wieder,wieder自己也没有错过他的wieder,所以谁才是那个遥远的星辰呢,bibiano fat marta还是阿连德时期的警界传奇r... 波拉尼奥没必要写明的,Wieder就是重复是反复是那些终将会重返的,哪些终将会重返的?就是那些会一再被错过的呀,soto被黑的那么惨,但soto的结局我的最爱之一,他遇见了自己的命运,他没有错过他的他的犯罪报道那个属于他的重返,何止是soto没有错过他的wieder,wieder自己也没有错过他的wieder,所以谁才是那个遥远的星辰呢,bibiano fat marta还是阿连德时期的警界传奇romero,反正不是Bruno Schulz,波拉尼奥这次重写当然是因为他是那类真正在和死线作对的作家,所以如果必须有作家要一个故事写两遍进书里,波拉尼奥肯定是其中一员,但Pierre Menard的幽灵真的放过他了么,他还是再次把故事停止在一个哭哭啼啼的夜晚,不值当的已经结束了没有人需要再受到伤害 (展开)
0 有用 レイウギし 2022-11-28 06:42:02 美国
“The first time I‘d seen a shark close up like that, he said. Quite something, I tell you.”
0 有用 Champloo. 2022-10-10 05:57:05 加拿大
和曾经认识的人分开后,时不时接收到的错综复杂信息,回忆和印象到底有多可靠,拼凑出的是什么样的人,还挺有趣。