Tuesday, November 01, 2011

News at Eleven: "The Neochileans," written 12 years after

"Autumn in Gerona" and around the time of the publication of Bolaño's first novel, maintains the confusion and doubt of Bolaño's earlier work. The poem is a coming-of-age story of sorts about an idealistic group of young musicians searching for a movement to latch on to. Pancho Ferri and his Neochileans are a reincarnation of Kerouac's Dean Moriarty and the Beats: bored and cynical, they hit the road in pursuit of a promised land--the American West for the beats, North towards Ecuador for the Neochileans.

from The Harvard Crimson: Poetry Collection Introduces the Real Roberto Bolaño

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