"The melancholy folklore of exile," as Roberto Bolano once put it,
pervades these fourteen haunting stories. Bolano's narrators are
usually writers grappling with private (and generally unlucky)
quests, who typically speak in the first person, as if giving a
deposition, like witnesses to a crime. These protagonists tend to
take detours and to narrate unresolved efforts. They are characters
living in the margins, often coming to pieces, and sometimes, as in
a nightmare, in constant flight from something horrid. In the short
story "Silva the Eye," Bolano writes in the opening sentence: "It's
strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as The Eye, always
tried to escape violence, even at the risk of being considered a
coward, but the violence, the real violence, can't be escaped, at
least not by us, born in Latin America in the 1950s, those of us
who were around 20 years old when Salvador Allende died." Set in
the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe, and peopled
by Bolano's beloved "failed generation," the stories of Last
Evenings on Earth have appeared in The New Yorker and Grand Street.
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