Roberto Bolaño ( April 28 is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 247 days remaining. Events 1253 - Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, declares his attention to preach the Lotus Sutra and Nam Myoho Renge Kyo as the true Buddhism, essentially founding the branch of... April 28, 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. Events January January 7 - President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. January 13 - Marshal Josip Broz Tito chosen President of Yugoslavia January 20 - Change of US presidency from Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) to Dwight D... 1953 - July 15 is the 196th day (197th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 169 days remaining. Events 1099 - Christian soldiers take Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after a difficult siege during First Crusade. 1207 - John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop... July 15, 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January January 1 - Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. Pascal Couchepin becomes President of the Confederation in... 2003) was a The Republic of Chile is a country located on the southwestern coast of South America. It is a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean. It shares borders with Argentina to the east, Bolivia to the northeast and Peru to the north. National... Chilean novelist and poet, winner of the prestigious Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Los detectives salvajes (The Savage Detectives) in 1999. For most of his life he was a nomad, living at one time or another in The Republic of Chile is a country located on the southwestern coast of South America. It is a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean. It shares borders with Argentina to the east, Bolivia to the northeast and Peru to the north. National... Chile, The United Mexican States or Mexico ( Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos or México; regarding the use of the variant spelling Méjico, see section The name below) is a country located in North America, bordered to the north by the United States of America, to the southeast by... Mexico, El Salvador (Spanish for The Savior) is a republic in Central America with a population of approximately 6.5 million people. National motto: Dios, Unión, Libertad (Spanish: God, Union, Liberty) Official language Spanish Capital San Salvador Capitals coordinates 13° 40′ N, 89° 10′ W Largest City... El Salvador, The French Republic or France ( French: République française or France) is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. France is a democracy organised as a... France and finally The Kingdom of Spain or Spain ( Spanish: Reino de España or España; Catalan: Regne dEspanya; Basque: Espainiako Erresuma; Galician: Reino da España) is a country located in the southwest of Europe. It shares the Iberian Peninsula with Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra. To the... Spain where he would settle in the small town of Blanes. In the seventies he became a Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. The term is sometimes used more loosely to denote various political currents claiming a tradition of Marxist opposition to both Stalinism and capitalism. An adherent of Trotskyism is called a Trotskyist; the term Trotskyite is pejorative. Trotsky advocated proletarian... Trotskyist and founding member of the infrarrealismo a small reaching poetic movement.

The Savage Detectives has been compared by Jorge Edwards to Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch (original title Rayuela) is the most famous novel by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar. This experimental novel from 1963, written in an episodic, snapshot manner, has 155 chapters, the last 99 being marked as expendable. The book can either be read from cover to cover, or hopping from chapter... Rayuela and José Lezama Lima's Paradiso was the only novel by cuban poet José Lezama Lima to be published during his lifetime. The narrative consists of the childhood and youth of José Cemí, told in a higly baroque experimental style. ... Paradiso.

Fiction

• La pista de hielo (1993)
• Literatura nazi en América (1996)
• Estrella distante (Distant Star) (1996)
• Llamadas telefónicas (1997)
• Los detectives salvajes (The Savage Detectives) (1998)
• Amuleto (1999)
• Monsieur Pain (1999)
• Nocturno de Chile (By night in Chile) (2000)
• Consejos de un discípulo de Morrison a un fanático de Joyce (1999)
• Los perros románticos (2000)
• Putas Asesinas (2001)
• Amberes (2002)
• Una novelita lumpen (2002)
• El gaucho insufrible (2003)
• 2666 (2004)

Poetry

• Tres (2000)

Non Fiction

• Entre paréntesis (2004)