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By Night in Chile

By Night in Chile
Roberto BolañoOriginal title Nocturno de Chile (Spanish, 2000)

By Night in Chile is a novella written by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño, and first published in 2000. It was the first of Bolaño's novels to be published in English, with Chris Andrews's English translation, which appeared in 2003 under New Directions.

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“As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.”

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