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Roberto Jonatán Bolaño Ávalos – chilijski pisarz, poeta i prozaik.

✵ 28. Kwiecień 1953 – 15. Lipiec 2003   •   Natępne imiona რობერტო ბოლანიო
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„Na wspomnienie o Traklu Amalfitano, prowadząc swój wykład niemal automatycznie, pomyślał o aptece nieopodal jego mieszkania w Barcelonie, do której zwykle chodził, kiedy potrzebował lekarstwa dla Rosy. Pracował w niej farmacueta wyglądający na nastolatka, nadzwyczaj chudy i w wielkich okularach, który nocami, kiedy apteka pełniła dyżur, zawsze czytał książkę. Pewnej nocy Amalfitano zapytał go, czuł bowiem, że powinien coś powiedzieć, podczas gdy farmaceuta szukał leków na półkach, jakie książki lubi i jaką książkę czyta w tej chwili. Farmaceuta odpowiedział mu, nawet się nie odwracając, że podobały mu się książki typu "Przemiana", "Bartleby", "Proste serce", "Opowieść wigilijna". A potem powiedział, że czyta teraz "Śniadanie u Tiffany'ego", Capotego. Pomijając "Proste serce" i "Opowieść wigilijną", które, jak powszechnie wiadomo, są opowiadaniami, a nie książkami, intrygujące było owo upodobanie młodego farmaceuty - który być może w swoim poprzednim życiu był Traklem, a być może w tym życiu miał napisać wiersze smutniejsze jeszcze niż te, które wyszły spod pióra jego dalekiego austriackiego kolegi - przedkładającego, ponad wszelką wątpliwość, dzieła mniejsze nad dzieła większe. Wybierał "Przemianę" zamiast "Procesu", wybierał "Bartleby'ego" zamiast "Moby Dicka", wybierał "Proste serce" zamiast "Bouvarda i Pecucheta", "Opowieść wigilijną" zamiast "Opowieści o dwóch miastach" albo "Klubu Pickwicka". Jakiż to smutny paradoks, pomyślał Amalfitano. Już nawet oświeceni farmaceuci nie mają odwagi siegnąć po wielkie dzieła, niedoskonałe, gwałtowne, te, które otwierają drogę w nieznane. Wybierają doskonałe wprawki wielkich mistrzów. Albo, by powiedzieć innymi słowy to samo: chcą widzieć wielkich mistrzów podczas szermierczych sesji treningowych, ale nie obchodzą ich prawdziwe batalie, gdzie wielcy mistrzowie walczą z czymś, z tym czymś, co przeraża nas wszystkich, czymś, co nas paraliżuje i bierze za rogi, i jest krew, i śmiertelne rany, i smród.”

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O nocy , Serce , O wspomnieniach , O książkach

Roberto Bolaño: Cytaty po angielsku

“We play at believing ourselves imortal. We delude oursleves in the appraisal of our own works and in our perpetual misappraisal of the works of others. See you at the Nobel, writers say, as one might say: see you in hell.”

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Roberto Bolaño książka 2666

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“There's a time for reciting poems and a time for fists. As far as I was concerned, this was the latter.”

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Roberto Bolaño książka The Savage Detectives

Wariant: There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
Źródło: The Savage Detectives

“Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.”

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Roberto Bolaño książka 2666

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“They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him….”

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Roberto Bolaño książka 2666

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“I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.”

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Roberto Bolaño książka Amulet

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“You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.”

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Roberto Bolaño książka The Savage Detectives

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“Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.”

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Roberto Bolaño książka 2666

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“We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?”

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Roberto Bolaño książka The Savage Detectives

Źródło: The Savage Detectives

“When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.”

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“For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…”

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Roberto Bolaño książka 2666

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“I was imprisoned in Concepción for a few days and then realeased. They didn't torture me, as I had feared; they didn't even rob me. But they didn't give me anything to eat either, or any kind of covering for the night, so I had to rely on the goodwill of other prisoners, who shared their food with me. In the small hours I could hear them torturing others; I couldn't sleep and there was nothing to read except a magazine in English that someone had left behind. The only interesting article in it was about a house that had once belonged to Dylan Thomas. … I got out of that hole thanks to a pair of detectives who had been at high school with me in Los Ángeles…”

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Roberto Bolaño książka Last Evenings on Earth

His experience of being imprisoned during the regime of Augusto Pinochet, as depicted in "Dance Card", p. 215
Last Evenings on Earth (2006)

“Darling, Juan de Dios Martínez would say to her sometimes, sweetheart, love, and in the darkness she would tell him to be quiet and then suck every last drop from him- of semen? of his soul? of the little life he felt, at the time, remained to him? They made love, at her express request, in semidarkness.”

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Roberto Bolaño

2666: A Novel (2008)

“About happiness he said not a word, I suppose because he considered it something strictly private and perhaps, how shall I say, treacherous or elusive.”

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2666: A Novel (2008)

“If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.”

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Roberto Bolaño

As quoted in Mining Mirror Vol. 19 (2006), p. 3

“Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees, patches of grass, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms and little wildflowers.”

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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)

“He began to think about semblance, as Ansky had discussed it in his notebook, and he began to think about himself. He felt free, as he never had in his life, and although malnourished and weak, he also felt the strength to prolong as far as possible this impulse toward freedom, toward sovereignty. And yet the possibility that it was all nothing but semblance troubled him. Semblance was an occupying force of reality, he said to himself, even the most extreme, borderline reality. It lived in people's souls and their actions, in willpower and in pain, in the way memories and priorities were ordered. Semblance proliferated in the salons of the industrialists and in the underworld. It set the rules, it rebelled against its own rules…it set new rules.”

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2666: A Novel (2008)

“That night when he went back to his hotel, he wept for his dead children and all the other castrated boys, for his own lost youth, for those who were young no longer and those who died young, for those who fought for Salvador Allende and those who were too scared to fight.”

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Roberto Bolaño książka Last Evenings on Earth

Mauricio ('The Eye') Silva
Last Evenings on Earth (2006)

“It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as the Eye, always tried to escape from violence even at the risk of being considered a coward, but the violence, the real violence, can't be escaped, at least not by us, born in Latin America in the 1950s, those of us who were around twenty years old when Salvador Allende died.”

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Roberto Bolaño książka Last Evenings on Earth

Mauricio ('The Eye') Silva
Last Evenings on Earth (2006)

“Those in power (even if it's only for a little while) known nothing about literature, all they care about is power. And I'll play the fool for my readers, if I feel like it, but never for the powerful.”

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Between Parentheses. Essays, Articles, and Speeches, 1998–2003. ed. Ignacio Echevarría, trans. Natasha Wimmer (New York: New Directions, 2011 [2004]). 358.
Wariant: 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

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