With the launch of in 1998,journalist Monica Maristain found a writer “capable of befriending his viewers.” Immediately after exchanging many letters with Bolaño, Maristain formed a friendship of her personal, culminating in an considerable interview with the novelist about fact and implications, an interview that turned out to be Bolaño’s very last.

Appearing for the first time in English, Bolaño’s closing interview is accompanied by a collection of conversations with reporters stationed during Latin The us, offering a rich context for the function of the author who, according to essayist Marcela Valdes, is “a T.S.