=By= Gaither Stewart
AMULET A Political-Fantasy Novel by Roberto Bolaño
As read and admired by political novelist Gaither Stewart
I am reading for the first time the work of Chilean born writer, Roberto Bolaño. His novel,
Amulet, set in a phantasmagoric Mexico City that, perhaps, also because it is Latin America’s biggest city, represents the entire crushed and tortured and imprisoned and murdered Latin America while also his characters are emblematic of the suffering and decimation of much of the best of the Latin American youth. Perhaps the author chose to highlight Mexico City, not only because of the massacre of Mexican students there in 1968, but also because he moved there as a teenager and lived there many years before moving to Spain and Barcelona where he died at 50.
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