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''Distant Star'' is a 1996 novella by Chilean writer Creator/RobertoBolano about an aspiring artist, Carlos Wieder, who turns out to be an intelligence mole of the military after a military coup. To be precise, the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. Soon after, he starts doing [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible incomprehensible art]] in the sky with his plane. The military at first is fascinated by his art, but after a while Wieder starts doing more risqué things which displeases the military government.
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''Distant Star'' is a 1996 novella by Chilean writer Creator/RobertoBolano about an aspiring artist, Carlos Wieder, who turns out to be an intelligence mole of the military after a military coup. To be precise, the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. Soon after, he starts doing [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible incomprehensible art]] art in the sky with his plane. The military at first is fascinated by his art, but after a while Wieder starts doing more risqué things which displeases the military government.
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''Distant Star'' is a 1996 novella by Chilean writer Creator/RobertoBolano about an aspiring artist, Carlos Wieder, that turns out to be an intelligence mole of the military after a military coup. To be precise, the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. Soon after, he starts doing [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible incomprehensible art]] in the sky with his plane. The military at first is fascinated by his art, but after a while Wieder starts doing more risqué things which displeases the military government.
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''Distant Star'' is a 1996 novella by Chilean writer Creator/RobertoBolano about an aspiring artist, Carlos Wieder, that who turns out to be an intelligence mole of the military after a military coup. To be precise, the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. Soon after, he starts doing [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible incomprehensible art]] in the sky with his plane. The military at first is fascinated by his art, but after a while Wieder starts doing more risqué things which displeases the military government.
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* SnuffFilm: A weird non-film example. Wieder kills people and uses them as "inspiration" for his art. At one time he even organizes an photography exposition; all the photographs are of some of his victims.
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* SnuffFilm: A weird non-film example. Wieder kills people and uses them as "inspiration" for his art. At one time point, he even organizes an a photography exposition; all the photographs are of some of his victims.
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* ThoseWackyNazis: Carlos Wieder falls in with neo-nazis after he is forced to leave Chile.
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* ThoseWackyNazis: Carlos Wieder falls in with neo-nazis neo-Nazis after he is forced to leave Chile.
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* SociopathicSoldier: Carlos Wieder is not only a Lieutenant in the Chilean Air Force and a poster boy for the fascist regime but also a demented SerialKiller.
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* SympathyForTheDevil: Arturo feels pity of Wieder and tries to convince Romero not to kill him. However, Arturo doesn't feel that because he thinks Wieder might be NotSoDifferent, but because he's old and pathetic.
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* SympathyForTheDevil: Arturo feels pity of Wieder and tries to convince Romero not to kill him. However, Arturo doesn't feel that because he thinks Wieder might be NotSoDifferent, similar, but because he's old and pathetic.
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* DirectLineToTheAuthor: Even though Arturo B. is obviously an Author Avatar of Bolaño, the book opens with Bolaño claiming that he helped Arturo B. to write the book (mostly by serving food/drinks and checking references while the character wrote furiously).
-->"So we took that final chapter and shut ourselves up for a month and a half in my house in Blanes, where, guided by his dreams and nightmares, we composed the present novel. My role was limited to preparing refreshments, consulting a few books, and discussing the reuse of numerous paragraphs with Arturo and the increasingly animated ghost of ^[[Creator/JorgeLuisBorges Pierre Menard]]."
-->"So we took that final chapter and shut ourselves up for a month and a half in my house in Blanes, where, guided by his dreams and nightmares, we composed the present novel. My role was limited to preparing refreshments, consulting a few books, and discussing the reuse of numerous paragraphs with Arturo and the increasingly animated ghost of ^[[Creator/JorgeLuisBorges Pierre Menard]]."
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* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: Even though Arturo B. is obviously an Author Avatar of Bolaño, the book opens with this little thing:
-->"So we took that final chapter and shut ourselves up for a month and a half in my house in Blanes, where, guided by his dreams and nightmares, we composed the present novel. My role was limited to preparing refreshments, consulting a few books, and discussing the reuse of numerous paragraphs with Arturo and the increasingly animated ghost of ^[[Creator/JorgeLuisBorges Pierre Menard]]."
-->"So we took that final chapter and shut ourselves up for a month and a half in my house in Blanes, where, guided by his dreams and nightmares, we composed the present novel. My role was limited to preparing refreshments, consulting a few books, and discussing the reuse of numerous paragraphs with Arturo and the increasingly animated ghost of ^[[Creator/JorgeLuisBorges Pierre Menard]]."
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* PrivateDetective: Abel Romero.
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* [[{{ThoseWackyNazis}} Those Wacky Neo-Nazis]]: Who Carlos Wieder falls in with after he is forced to leave Chile.
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* [[{{ThoseWackyNazis}} Those Wacky Neo-Nazis]]: Who ThoseWackyNazis: Carlos Wieder falls in with neo-nazis after he is forced to leave Chile.
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* ShroudedInMyth: Arturo and Bibiano think of Juan Stein, his old college teacher, as some sort of MemeticBadass, some sort of guerrilla fighter in Central America. They never find out if what they thought of him is true or not, though not for lack of trying.
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* ShroudedInMyth: Arturo and Bibiano think of Juan Stein, his their old college teacher, as some sort of MemeticBadass, some sort of believing that he participated in leftist guerrilla fighter in Central America. groups all over the world. They never find out if what they thought of him is was true or not, though not for lack of trying.
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* [[{{ThoseWackyNazis}} Those Wacky Neo-Nazis]]
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* [[{{ThoseWackyNazis}} Those Wacky Neo-Nazis]]Neo-Nazis]]: Who Carlos Wieder falls in with after he is forced to leave Chile.
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* PragmaticVillainy: The Pinochet regime has no problem helping Wieder torture and kill for his art, so long as he restricts his choice of victim to their political enemies. However, they expel him after he uses pictures of his victims in a gallery, not for moral reasons, but because it would bring unwanted public attention to their crimes.
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-->"So we took that final chapter and shut ourselves up for a month and a half in my house in Blanes, where, guided by his dreams and nightmares, we composed the present novel. My role was limited to preparing refreshments, consulting a few books, and discussing the reuse of numerous paragraphs with Arturo and the increasingly animated ghost of ^[[JorgeLuisBorges Pierre Menard]]."
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-->"So we took that final chapter and shut ourselves up for a month and a half in my house in Blanes, where, guided by his dreams and nightmares, we composed the present novel. My role was limited to preparing refreshments, consulting a few books, and discussing the reuse of numerous paragraphs with Arturo and the increasingly animated ghost of ^[[JorgeLuisBorges ^[[Creator/JorgeLuisBorges Pierre Menard]]."
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* AuthorAvatar: Arturo Belano, the narrator of the story.
* CanonWelding: Arturo Belano appears also in other Bolaño stories, like ''Literature/TheSavageDetectives''.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Alberto Ruiz-Tagle]] aka Carlos Wieder.
* CanonWelding: Arturo Belano appears also in other Bolaño stories, like ''Literature/TheSavageDetectives''.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Alberto Ruiz-Tagle]] aka Carlos Wieder.
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* AuthorAvatar: Arturo Belano, B., the narrator of the story.
* CanonWelding: ArturoBelano appears B(elano), along with other characters, appear also in other Bolaño stories, like ''Literature/TheSavageDetectives''.
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* IHaveManyNames: Alberto Ruiz-Table, Carlos Wieder, Jules Defoe.
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: Even though Arturo B. is obviously an Author Avatar of Bolaño, the book opens with this little thing:
-->"So we took that final chapter and shut ourselves up for a month and a half in my house in Blanes, where, guided by his dreams and nightmares, we composed the present novel. My role was limited to preparing refreshments, consulting a few books, and discussing the reuse of numerous paragraphs with Arturo and the increasingly animated ghost of ^[[JorgeLuisBorges Pierre Menard]]."
* MadArtist: Carlos Wieder, big time.
* TheMole:[[spoiler:Alberto Ruiz-Tagle]] Alberto Ruiz-Tagle aka Carlos Wieder.
* CanonWelding: Arturo
* IHaveManyNames: Alberto Ruiz-Table, Carlos Wieder, Jules Defoe.
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: Even though Arturo B. is obviously an Author Avatar of Bolaño, the book opens with this little thing:
-->"So we took that final chapter and shut ourselves up for a month and a half in my house in Blanes, where, guided by his dreams and nightmares, we composed the present novel. My role was limited to preparing refreshments, consulting a few books, and discussing the reuse of numerous paragraphs with Arturo and the increasingly animated ghost of ^[[JorgeLuisBorges Pierre Menard]]."
* MadArtist: Carlos Wieder, big time.
* TheMole:
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* SnuffFilm: What [[spoiler:Wieder]] was doing when he ran from the country.
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* RetiredMonster: Wieder killed a lot of people in his search for a new form of art, but when Arturo and Romero find him in Barcelona he's tired and looks much older than his age.
* ShroudedInMyth: Arturo and Bibiano think of Juan Stein, his old college teacher, as some sort of MemeticBadass, some sort of guerrilla fighter in Central America. They never find out if what they thought of him is true or not, though not for lack of trying.
* SnuffFilm:What [[spoiler:Wieder]] was doing when A weird non-film example. Wieder kills people and uses them as "inspiration" for his art. At one time he ran from even organizes an photography exposition; all the country.photographs are of some of his victims.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Arturo feels pity of Wieder and tries to convince Romero not to kill him. However, Arturo doesn't feel that because he thinks Wieder might be NotSoDifferent, but because he's old and pathetic.
* TalkativeLoon: Norberto in the detention center.
* ShroudedInMyth: Arturo and Bibiano think of Juan Stein, his old college teacher, as some sort of MemeticBadass, some sort of guerrilla fighter in Central America. They never find out if what they thought of him is true or not, though not for lack of trying.
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* SympathyForTheDevil: Arturo feels pity of Wieder and tries to convince Romero not to kill him. However, Arturo doesn't feel that because he thinks Wieder might be NotSoDifferent, but because he's old and pathetic.
* TalkativeLoon: Norberto in the detention center.
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* CanonWelding: Arturo Belano appears also in other Bolaño stories, like ''TheSavageDetectives''.
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''Distant Star'' is a 1996 novella by Chilean writer Creator/RobertoBolano about an aspiring artist, Carlos Wieder, that turns out to be an intelligence mole of the military after a military coup. To be precise, the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. Soon after, he starts doing [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible incomprehensible art]] in the sky with his plane. The military at first is fascinated by his art, but after a while Wieder starts doing more risqué things which displeases the military government.
The story took off from a chapter from Bolaño's previous book ''Nazi Literature in the Americas'', where he considered one of the stories too undervalued, so he decided to expand the story of the character in ''Distant Star''.
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!!This book provides examples of:
* AuthorAvatar: Arturo Belano, the narrator of the story.
* CanonWelding: Arturo Belano appears also in other Bolaño stories, like ''TheSavageDetectives''.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Alberto Ruiz-Tagle]] aka Carlos Wieder.
* PrivateDetective: Abel Romero.
* SnuffFilm: What [[spoiler:Wieder]] was doing when he ran from the country.
* [[{{ThoseWackyNazis}} Those Wacky Neo-Nazis]]
* TwinThreesomeFantasy: Alberto Ruiz-Tagle only opens himself to the Garmendia twins, and at least one of them feels something for him. Then it takes a dark turn.
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The story took off from a chapter from Bolaño's previous book ''Nazi Literature in the Americas'', where he considered one of the stories too undervalued, so he decided to expand the story of the character in ''Distant Star''.
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!!This book provides examples of:
* AuthorAvatar: Arturo Belano, the narrator of the story.
* CanonWelding: Arturo Belano appears also in other Bolaño stories, like ''TheSavageDetectives''.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Alberto Ruiz-Tagle]] aka Carlos Wieder.
* PrivateDetective: Abel Romero.
* SnuffFilm: What [[spoiler:Wieder]] was doing when he ran from the country.
* [[{{ThoseWackyNazis}} Those Wacky Neo-Nazis]]
* TwinThreesomeFantasy: Alberto Ruiz-Tagle only opens himself to the Garmendia twins, and at least one of them feels something for him. Then it takes a dark turn.
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