![]() One of the great gifts Bolaño bestows upon Borges in return is how, in essays and interviews, he dispels the aura of brainy sobriety that tends to rarify his hero into an abstraction. But to think so is to overlook Bolaño’s subtle comic chops and lifelong interest in pulp. Borges, with his elegance, his recursiveness, his allegorical purity and erudition, may at first blush seem worlds apart from the violent, hard-boiled predilections that came to define Bolaño’s oeuvre. In the Argentine metaphysician, Bolaño found a path through the Latin American Boom’s sticky, commercial aftermath. “I could live under a table reading Borges,” he once told an interviewer. The Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño idolized Jorge Luis Borges. Right image: stencil of Roberto Bolaño from Barcelona, 2012 ![]()
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