Notas para una autobiografía : Entrevistas (1975-2003)

The interviews gathered here trace a journey through the life and work of Roberto Bolaño that is simultaneously biographical and intellectual. We encounter the young, combative writer, situated in the realm of poetry and displaying an absolute fervor for literature. Little by little, he transforms: the narrator emerges, the voracious reader, the writer who reflects on craft, style, risk, discipline, and daily work. In the final pieces, Bolaño speaks from a position of recognition, but without complacency: he distrusts awards and posterity, relativizes success, and returns time and again to literature as a way of life. This volume offers the opportunity to hear firsthand from one of the greatest writers of recent decades. His voice is not reconstructed by biographers, his image is not filtered by critics. He is an author who explains and exposes himself. Reading these interviews is like attending a long conversation interrupted by years, travels, and changes in context, but sustained by the conviction that literature is a serious, dangerous, and vital matter.