Francisco Goldman Reads Roberto Bolano

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The New Yorker: Fiction

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2013-02-02

39 分钟
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Francisco Goldman reads "Clara," by Roberto Bolano.

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  • This is the New Yorker fiction podcast from the New Yorker magazine.

  • I'm Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at the New Yorker.

  • Each month we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and discuss.

  • This month we're going to hear the story Clara by Roberto Bolano.

  • She once told me that there were three claras in her soul.

  • A little girl, an old crone enslaved by her family, and a young woman, the real Clara, who wanted to get out of that city forever.

  • The story was chosen by Francisco Goldman, whose novels say her name was excerpted in the in 2011.

  • Hi, Frank.

  • Hi, Debra.

  • When we first talked about doing a podcast, the first two writers who came to your mind were Bolano and Borges.

  • Why those two in particular?

  • Is there a connection between them for you?

  • There's a huge connection between them.

  • Bolano worshipped Borges.

  • He has a wonderful line in one of his interviews where he says, I could live under a table reading Borges, a famous spanish critic said, savage detectives, that this was the kind of novel Borges would have written if Borges wrote novels.

  • And people were so puzzled by that at first.

  • Cause savage detectives, this sprawling, multivoiced, sex obsessed, dirty novel, you know, about young people in Mexico City, you know, terse, seemingly cold, seemingly sexless Borges.

  • Right.

  • But Borges had this, as my late wife aura Estrada wrote in her wonderful essay called no direction Home, Borges, Bolano and the return of the epic.

  • When he idealized the novel, it was like he loved the kind of open ended epic form, right.