Roberto Bolaño: Citations en anglais
Variante: There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
Source: The Savage Detectives
“We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?”
Source: The Savage Detectives
His experience of being imprisoned during the regime of Augusto Pinochet, as depicted in "Dance Card", p. 215
Last Evenings on Earth (2006)
2666: A Novel (2008)
As quoted in Mining Mirror Vol. 19 (2006), p. 3
La literatura es un vasto bosque y las obras maestras son los lagos, los árboles inmensos o extrañísimos, las elocuentes flores preciosas o las escondidas grutas, pero un bosque también está compuesto por árboles comunes y corrientes, por yerbazales, por charcos, por plantas parásitas, por hongos y por florecillas silvestres.
2666: A Novel (2008)
2666: A Novel (2008)
Mauricio ('The Eye') Silva
Last Evenings on Earth (2006)
Mauricio ('The Eye') Silva
Last Evenings on Earth (2006)
Between Parentheses. Essays, Articles, and Speeches, 1998–2003. ed. Ignacio Echevarría, trans. Natasha Wimmer (New York: New Directions, 2011 [2004]). 358.
Variante: Alternative translation: "Those who have power—even for a short time—know nothing about literature; they are solely interested in power. I can be a clown to my readers, if I damn well please, but never to the powerful." Interview with Mónica Maristain for Playboy (Mexican edition), "The Last Interview" (2003), 102, in: The Last Interview. trans. Sybil Perez (New York: Mellville House, 2009). 93-123
