History Creator / RobertoBolano

** It can be said that much of Bolaño’s fictions, beside poems, was autobiographical in many ways.

** It can be said that much of Bolaño’s fictions, beside poems, was autobiographical.

* ''A Little Lumpen Novelita'' (2002)

* {{Doorstopper}}: ''2666'' clocks in at well over 1000 pages. Bolaño had planned another 200 pages before suffering AuthorExistenceFailure. ''The Savage Detectives'' is also a doorstopper, though it's not as long as ''2666''.

Roberto Bolaño (1953 – 2003) was a UsefulNotes/{{Chile}}an writer and poet. He originally wrote poetry, but changed to write fiction for [[MoneyDearBoy money]] (after all, he had a family to feed). Despite this, he continued to think of himself primarily as a poet. He had a kind of tendency of taking an EnsembleDarkHorse from one book (or sometimes just a minor character) and writing a story around that character.

* LiteraryAllusionTitle: “The Myths of Cthulhu”, which is ''not'' about the CthulhuMythos.

Roberto Bolaño (1953 – 2003) was a UsefulNotes/{{Chile}}an writer and poet. He originally wrote poetry, but changed to write fiction for [[MoneyDearBoy money]] (after all, he had a family to feed). He had a kind of tendency of taking an EnsembleDarkHorse from one book (or sometimes just a minor character) and writing a story around that character.

Even though he was from Chile, he spent very little time in the country and lived in Spain. He was also very critical of the writers in Chile, particularly Creator/IsabelAllende, decrying their (perceived) lack of talent.

He has been dead for a while, but is ''still'' publishing books. That shows you how prolific he was. Many of his published works have yet to be published in English, presumably because bringing them all out at once would run the risk of over-saturating the market with new (in English) Bolaño works.

* {{Doorstopper}}: ''2666'' clocks in at well over 1000 pages. Bolaño had planned another 200 pages before suffering AuthorExistenceFailure.

* ReclusiveArtist: Benno von Archimboldi in ''2666''.

* CrapsackWorld: Women in ''2666''[='=]s Santa Teresa are pretty much constantly at risk of being raped and murdered. Given that Santa Teresa is a stand-in for Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, where literally ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_homicides_in_Ciudad_Ju%C3%A1rez thousands]]'' of women have been murdered since 1993, this is pretty much a ForegoneConclusion. ("The Part About the Crimes" [see OverlyLongGag below] goes into this in depth).

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: ''By Night In Chile'' is this to other Chilean writers during the Pinochet years.

Even though he was from Chile, he spent very little time in the country and lived in Spain. He was also very critical of the writers in Chile, particularly Creator/IsabelAllende, decrying their (perceived) lack of talent. This makes him somewhat of a BaseBreaker among Chilean readers.

* OverlyLongGag: Part 4 of ''2666'' is 300 pages of detailed descriptions of misogynist murders. It's not played for laughs.
** Another example of this trope being played for drama is ''By Night in Chile''. The book goes for over a hundred pages and contains two paragraphs. The first takes up nearly the entire book.

* MexicansWithMachineGuns: ''Amulet'' happens during the Tlatelolco massacre, when the Mexican Army forcefully entered the Polytechnic in the FD.

Do not confuse with Roberto Gómez Bolaños, [[ElChapulinColorado also known]] [[ElChavoDelOcho as Chespirito]].

* ThoseWackyNazis: Deconstructed in ''Nazi Literature in the Americas''. Nazis and Neo-Nazis tend to appear on his books, whether literally (''Distant Star'') or metaphorically (''The Third Reich'').

Even though he was from Chile, he spent very little time in the country and lived in Spain. He was also very critical of the writers in Chile, particularly IsabelAllende, decrying their (perceived) lack of talent. This makes him somewhat of a BaseBreaker among Chilean readers.

* ''TheSavageDetectives'' (1998)

'''Roberto Bolaño''' (1953 – 2003) was a UsefulNotes/{{Chile}}an writer and poet. He originally wrote poetry, but changed to write fiction for [[MoneyDearBoy money]] (after all, he had a family to feed). He had a kind of tendency of taking an EnsembleDarkHorse from one book (or sometimes just a minor character) and writing a story around that character.

* ''DistantStar'' (1996)

* ''[[TheSavageDetectives The Savage Detectives]]'' (1998)
* ''[[TwentySixSixtySix 2666]]'' (2004)

'''Roberto Bolaño''' (1953 – 2003) was a Chilean writer and poet. He originally wrote poetry, but changed to write fiction for [[MoneyDearBoy money]] (after all, he had a family to feed). He had a kind of tendency of taking an EnsembleDarkHorse from one book (or sometimes just a minor character) and writing a story around that character.

Books written by Bolaño with their own pages here:

!!Tropes about him and his work:

* NerdGlasses

* PermaStubble

* ThoseWackyNazis: Deconstructed in ''Nazi Literature In The Americas''. Nazis and Neo-Nazis tend to appear on his books, whether literally (''Distant Star'') or metaphorically (''The Third Reich'').