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by Roberto Bolano

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By Night in Chile documents the rise and then regret of Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest and literary critic. The novel first documents Urrutia's rise through the literati of Chile. By making friends with Chile's greatest literary critic, Farewell, and then by meeting such literary greats as Neruda, Urrutia gives up most of the theological imperatives towards justice and service that his profession requires and, instead, focuses his energy on art, poetry, and literary criticism.

From his deathbed, the old and dying Urrutia recalls stories told to him by friends such as the story of one author meeting the German writer Ernst Junger and Farewell's story of the old shoemaker's attempt to build a monument to his home empire. These…

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