A review by lori85
Distant Star by Roberto Bolaño

3.0

This is a story of leftist revolutionaries and right-wing counterrevolutionaries circulating across the globe and through an international literary underworld of amateur poetry workshops, avant-garde posturing, obscure 'zines, and self-published books that quickly vanish. Hiding in there somewhere, lurking behind various pseudonyms, is the menacing Carlos Wieder, a Chilean Air Force officer who had gained some recognition for his sky poetry, only to be banished from the public eye after a macabre exhibit links him to the atrocities of Pinochet's government. Unfortunately, from the enigmatic author no one can find to the Chilean diaspora, fascist literary weirdos, and the protagonist's vagabond life in Europe, there's really nothing here that wasn't better developed in [b:2666|63032|2666|Roberto Bolaño|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1412644327i/63032._SY75_.jpg|3294830], [b:The Savage Detectives|63033|The Savage Detectives|Roberto Bolaño|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1342651149i/63033._SX50_.jpg|2503920], and [b:Nazi Literature in the Americas|1178230|Nazi Literature in the Americas|Roberto Bolaño|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348627738i/1178230._SX50_.jpg|1166037].