Chris Andrews on Roberto Bolaño

Several years ago, when it was relevant, I wrote a review of Chris Andrew’s Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe. It languished, partly in editorial transitions at the journal in question, and never came to publication. I have no interest in pursuing it anywhere else. So here it is:

A year after Roberto Bolaño won the prestigious Rómulo Gallegos prize in Spain, the poet and scholar Chris Andrews brought translations of three of the Chilean author’s short novels to New Directions. The first of these, By Night in Chile, became Bolaño’s English-language debut in…