Roberto Bolaños

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Roberto Bolaños was born in April 28 of 1953 and died in July 15 of 2003.

He was a Chilean poet, novelist and essayist. He wrote more of two tens books. The most famous are “los detectives salvajes”, “estrella distante” and “2666”.

After his death, Bolaños became a one of most influential writers of Spanish languish.  Because three of his books feature into the fifteen first places of the list of 2007, ready-made for
eighty one Latin Americans writers and literature critics, with the hundred best books of Spanish languish of the last years.His work has been translated into numerous languages, including English, French, German, Italian and Dutch.
In addition, Bolaños has an excellent criticism from both writers and contemporary literary critics and is considered one of the great Latin American authors of the twentieth century, along with other writers such as Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, with who he is usually compared.

The work of Roberto Bolaño includes poetry, novels, stories and essays published mostly in Barcelona, ​​Spain. Several of these works have been published posthumously.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, many specialists and literary critics have analyzed the works of Bolaños. One of his most dominant features is the constant connection between life and literature.  In his books reflections on the values ​​of reading or the virtue of the act of writing, an activity that tends to be related to death and violence. His multiple characters has their own individuality, are mostly writers both unsuccessful and successful for which literary activity is everything, not only in an aesthetic sense but also in an ethical sense. Many writers and specialists agree with which his work is strongly linked to a melancholic aesthetic.