The representative works of Roberto Polano, a Chilean writer living in Spain, include Detective Wilderness, Shepherd of the Mountain and 2666.
Chinese name: Roberto Polano
Nationality: Chile
Place of birth: Santiago, Chile
Date of birth: 1953
Occupation: writer
Masterpieces: Detective Wilderness and Alpine Shepherd 2666.
Brief introduction to life
Polano 1953 was born in Santiago, Chile, and 1968 moved to Mexico City. He worshipped Borges since he was a child and often stole books he wanted from bookstores. Obsessed with literature, he dropped out of high school, buried himself in writing poems and participated in various left-wing literati movements in Mexico and El Salvador in the 1960s and 1970s. 1973 With the victory of the Social Democratic Party led by Allende, Polano returned to Chile, hoping to participate in this left-wing revolution. But Pinochet staged a coup and seized power. Polano was regarded as a foreign terrorist and spent eight days in prison.
1974 After returning to Mexico, Polano and a group of poets formed a poetry group infrarealistras, whose style was French surrealism and Mexican Dadaism.
1977, a failed love made him determined to leave Mexico. "If I stay in Mexico, I will hang myself." He wandered in France, Spain and North Africa for a year, and Franco lived in Barcelona after his death. Fearing that the indulgent life there would affect his creation, he began a long wandering journey along the Mediterranean coast, doing various jobs along the way: grape pickers in vineyards, dock workers, camp security guards, small jewelry store owners, and continuing to write poems in his spare time. This wandering life has seriously damaged his health.
In the mid-1980s, Polano settled in the Spanish resort town of Blanes. He gave up heroin and married a Catalan woman, carolina Lopez. 1990, the first son was born, and soon after, the daughter was born. Great changes have taken place in Polano as a father. He is determined to lead a normal life and take on the responsibilities as a husband and father. He painfully put down his poems and began to write novels.
Literary achievements
At first, Polano took part in various national short story competitions. Whenever a novel wins a prize, he gives it a new title and takes part in another competition-still winning the prize. At the age of 38, Polano learned that his liver had a big problem. He began to concentrate on writing crazily. Since 1996, he has published at least one book every year. He often writes at his desk for two days and nights in a row, and sometimes misses the doctor's appointment.
1998 The Great Detective in the Wilderness caused a sensation in Latin American literary circles, no less than the grand occasion when One Hundred Years of Solitude was published 30 years ago. The book won the National Book Award in Chile and the Romulo Gallegos International Novel Award (one of the most important literary awards in Latin America, the previous three winners were Luisa, Marquez and fuentes, which were awarded every five years in the early days and now every two years).
Polano's literary ideas are full of rebellion, and he likes to oppose the mainstream literary world. He publicly accused the magical realism literature that dominated the Spanish and Latin American literary circles for decades of "stinking" and criticized Marquez for "especially enjoying meeting presidents and cardinals of various countries", but his writing did get rid of the magical realism tradition since One Hundred Years of Solitude from 65438 to 0967, which broadened the road for contemporary Latin American literature. He appreciates the works of Borges and Kortaza, and once said that the favorite thing in my life is "having sex with Borges". The bookishness and wisdom in his works make him a worthy successor to Latin American modernist literary tradition.
Personality assessment
From June 5438 to February 2007, new york Times routinely published the top ten books of the year selected by the editorial department of Book Review Weekly. Among them, Roberto Polano, a Chilean writer who died in 2003, has an impressive masterpiece and novel Detective in the Wilderness.
Polano's awareness and attention in the English-speaking world came late. In 2003, at the age of 50, Polano died in his prime because he couldn't wait for a liver donation and transplant. Just six weeks before his death, at the Latin American Literature Seminar held in Seville, Spain, the participants agreed that Polano was the most important Latin American writer in the 1990s.
List of works
Shepherds in the mountains
《2666》
Wild detective
Polano's 2666 won the grand prize.
Robert Polano, a Chilean writer who died young, was once again awarded the Medal of Honor by British and American literary circles. A few days ago, Polano's "2666" won the American National Book Review Award for fiction.
This time, the American National Book Review Award was awarded to the late writer Polano for the first time. Natasha Weimer, the English translator of 2666, accepted this posthumous honor instead of Polano. In an interview, she said that Polano once said that the word "after death" sounded like "Roman gladiator".
It is reported that Dexter Fairkingston's Endless War won the non-fiction award, and Ariel Saba's Father's Paradise won the autobiography award.
Robert Polano was born in 1953, and died of liver disease in 2003 due to long-term drug abuse. Regarding Polano's award, MarcelaValdes, a judge of the American National Book Review Award, pointed out that "2666" is a dazzling work with rich contents, which will surely attract the attention of readers and scholars for a long time.