Bolano: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
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With the release of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives in 1998,journalist Monica Maristain discovered a writer “capable of befriending his readers.” After exchanging several letters with Bolaño, Maristain formed a friendship of her own, culminating in an extensive interview with the novelist about truth and consequences, an interview that turned out to be Bolaño’s last.Appearing for the first time in English, Bolaño’s final interview is accompanied by a collection of conversations with reporters stationed throughout Latin America, providing a rich context for the work of the writer who, according to essayist Marcela Valdes, is “a T.S. Eliot or Virginia Woolf of Latin American letters.” As in all of Bolaño’s work, there is also wide-ranging discussion of the author’s many literary influences. (Explanatory notes on authors and titles that may be unfamiliar to English-language readers are included here.) The interviews, all of which were completed during the writing of the gigantic 2666, also address Bolaño’s deepest personal concerns, from his domestic life and two young children to the realities of a fatal disease.
Introduction 9Alone Among the Ghosts Marcela ValdesI "Literature is Not Made From Words Alone"Interview by Héctor Soto and Matías Bravo Capital, Santiago, December 1999 41II "Reading is Always More Important Than Writing"Interview by Carmen Boullosa, translated by Margaret Carson Bomb, Brooklyn, Winter 2002 53III "Positions are Positions and Sex is Sex"Interview by Eliseo Álvarez Turia, Barcelona, June 2005 69IV The Last InterviewInterview by Mónica Maristain playboy, edition, July 2003 93
