
Book Review: Roberto Balaño's By Night in Chile
The late left-wing, Chilean author Roberto Bolaño's novella By Night in Chile has a longer rejoinder to the memes about what a fascist is. Father Urrutia is on his deathbed and for the most part recounts a life of thwarted literary ambitions, religious devotion, and rubbing shoulders with the powerful. It is hard to get around the conclusion that he has participated in something both banal and monstrous.