"A poet can endure anything. Which amounts to saying that a human being can endure anything...The opening assertion is true, but that way lie ruin, madness, and death."—page 26, "Enrique Martín," Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño
A confessional tone. A blend of autobiography and fiction. The themes of loss, exile, mortality. Restless wandering. Writers confronting each other. Writers confronting themselves. Writers confronting their audience. Relationship. Loneliness. Habits that ground us in our humanity. Routine. The unexpected. Distraction. The voices that whisper to us in the dead of night. The voices in our head. The Voice.
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