Amulet
Amulet is a monologue, like Bolaño's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile . The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becomingthe "Mother of Mexican Poetry," hanging out with the young poets in the cafes and bars of the University. She's tall, thin, and blonde, and her favorite young poet in the 1970s is none other than Arturo Bolaño (Bolaño's fictional stand-in throughout his books). As well as her young poets, Auxilio recalls three remarkab…
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- Full title :Amulet / Roberto Bolaño ; translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews.
Summary
Amulet is a monologue, like Bolaño's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile . The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becomingthe "Mother of Mexican Poetry," hanging out with the young poets in the cafes and bars of the University. She's tall, thin, and blonde, and her favorite young poet in the 1970s is none other than Arturo Bolaño (Bolaño's fictional stand-in throughout his books). As well as her young poets, Auxilio recalls three remarkable women: the melancholic young philosopher Elena, the exiled Catalan painter Remedios Varo, and Lilian Serpas, a poet who once slept with Che Guevara. And in the course of her imaginary visit to the house of Remedios Varo, Auxilio sees an uncanny landscape, a kind of chasm. This chasm reappears in a vision at the end of the book: an army of children is marching toward it, singing as they go. The children are the idealistic young Latin Americans who came to maturity in the '70s, and the last words of the novel are: "And that song is our amulet."
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- Publication Date:2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):New Directions
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2008.
Notes
Translation of: Amuleto. Originally published by Editorial Anagrama.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (184 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780811220484, 0811220486
- oclc:ocn917609547
- LC Classification:PQ8098.12.O38
- Dewey Decimal:863.64
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