Modiano's Place de L'etoile

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Did you read Bolanos take on Michael Townley torturing people in the 
basement of his house while his wife, author Maria Callejas, was 
partying upstairs?

'Chilean writer Pia Barros, however, said that before one salon meeting 
she bumped into evidence that something more than short stories was 
being created at the Callejas mansion.

Walking up to the house one night, Barros said, she mistakenly opened an 
outside door and found a hidden room filled with cots, laboratory 
equipment and camouflage fabric.

"I went up to the salon and didn't say a word," Barros said. "We left 
after half an hour and we never went back. We also never told anybody 
what we had seen."

Callejas' salon has lived on in Chilean literature. Chilean-born writer 
Roberto Bolano ended his celebrated novel "By Night in Chile" with an 
account of the salon and the story of Callejas and Townley.'

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article24494053.html

This story is interesting on various levels. It also ties in with the 
endlessly fascinating Colonia Dignidad via the Sarin (see the entry on 
Eugenio Berríos on Wiki, which is worth a read all on its own).

Let me also recommend Bolanos "Nazi Literature in the Americas".

Apart from me responding to a stimulus (parapolitics/literature) -- 
thank you for your recommendation. I'll make sure to check out Modiano.


Am 07.10.2015 um 16:16 schrieb rich:
> making my way through PM's occupation trilogy. reading the
> aforementioned leads me to believe that the nobel was highly deserved.
> Roberto Bolano must have read this as the book's themes of many of his
> works seem so similar--the barrage of artists, works, culture and
> obsession with the many french collaborative paramilitary groups of the
> right: the milice ,LVF, rue lauriston gang, etc.
>
> good stuff
>
> rich

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