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Print this article The itinerant, Chilean-born writer Roberto Bolano, who died in 2003, has become one of the most internationally recognized and influential of Latin American novelists despite the fact that much of his work wasn’t even published while he was alive. In contrast to other celebrated South American literary exports such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Bolano wasn’t much interested in magical realism. (He accused the Chilean novelist Isabel Allende, one of magical realism’s most commercially successful practitioners, of writing anemic “kitsch.”) That is not to say that Bola...

Cowboy Graves by Roberto Bolaño review – more mysteries and enigmas Rob Doyle The executors of the Roberto Bolaño archive have us right where they want us. Like pushers who know we’re hooked enough to keep buying product of diminishing quality, every couple of years they staple together something new from the notebooks, loose papers and computer files Bolaño left behind when he died in 2003 and tack it to the end of his oeuvre. It mightn’t be long before we’re presented with Bolaño: The Complete Shopping Lists or Gauchos at the Forgotten Library: Selected Email Dra...