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Distant Star
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Distant Star is a 1996 novella by Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño about an aspiring artist, Carlos Wieder, who turns out to be an intelligence mole of the military after a military coup. To be precise, the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. Soon after, he starts doing incomprehensible art in the sky with his plane. The military at first is fascinated by his art, but after a while Wieder starts doing more risqué things which displeases the military government.The story took off from a chapter from Bolaño's previous book Nazi Literature in the Americas, where he considered one of the stories too undervalued, so he decided to expand the story of the character in Distant Star. | |
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Twin Threesome Fantasy | |
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Twin Threesome Fantasy: Alberto Ruiz-Tagle only opens himself to the Garmendia twins, and at least one of them feels something for him. Then it takes a dark turn. | |
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Mad Artist | |
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Mad Artist: Carlos Wieder, big time. | |
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Pragmatic Villainy | |
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Pragmatic Villainy: The Pinochet regime has no problem helping Wieder torture and kill for his art, so long as he restricts his choice of victim to their political enemies. However, they expel him after he uses pictures of his victims in a gallery, not for moral reasons, but because it would bring unwanted public attention to their crimes. | |
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Author Avatar | |
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Author Avatar: Arturo B., the narrator of the story. | |
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Canon Welding | |
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Canon Welding: Arturo B(elano), along with other characters, appear also in other Bolaño stories. | |
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Those Wacky Nazis | |
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Those Wacky Nazis: Carlos Wieder falls in with neo-Nazis after he is forced to leave Chile. | |
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Direct Line to the Author | |
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Direct Line to the Author: Even though Arturo B. is obviously an Author Avatar of Bolaño, the book opens with Bolaño claiming that he helped Arturo B. to write the book (mostly by serving food/drinks and checking references while the character wrote furiously). | |
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Retired Monster | |
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Retired Monster: Wieder killed a lot of people in his search for a new form of art, but when Arturo and Romero find him in Barcelona he's tired and looks much older than his age. | |
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Private Detective | |
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Private Detective: Abel Romero. | |
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Talkative Loon | |
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Talkative Loon: Norberto in the detention center. | |
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Snuff Film | |
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Snuff Film: A weird non-film example. Wieder kills people and uses them as "inspiration" for his art. At one point, he even organizes a photography exposition; all the photographs are of his victims. | |
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Shrouded in Myth | |
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Shrouded in Myth: Arturo and Bibiano think of Juan Stein, their old college teacher, as some sort of Memetic Badass, believing that he participated in leftist guerrilla groups all over the world. They never find out if what they thought of him was true or not, though not for lack of trying. | |
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Sociopathic Soldier | |
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Sociopathic Soldier: Carlos Wieder is not only a Lieutenant in the Chilean Air Force and a poster boy for the fascist regime but also a demented Serial Killer. | |
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Sympathy for the Devil | |
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Sympathy for the Devil: Arturo feels pity of Wieder and tries to convince Romero not to kill him. However, Arturo doesn't feel that because he thinks Wieder might be similar, but because he's old and pathetic. | |
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I Have Many Names | |
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I Have Many Names: Alberto Ruiz-Table, Carlos Wieder, Jules Defoe. | |
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The Mole | |
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The Mole: Alberto Ruiz-Tagle aka Carlos Wieder. | |
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