Daniel Alarcon Reads Roberto Bolano

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The New Yorker: Fiction

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2011-03-19

30 分钟
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Daniel Alarcon reads Roberto Bolano's "Gomez Palacio."

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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 Gomez Palacio by Roberto Bellagno.

  • In the rearview Mirror, I could see an enormous wall rising beyond the town.

  • It took me a while to realize it was the night.

  • The story was chosen by Daniel Aler Kon, who was featured in the New Yorker's 20 under 40 fiction issue and has been publishing stories in the magazine since 2003.

  • His novel Lost City Radio came out in 2007.

  • He joins us from the studios of KQED in San Francisco.

  • Hi, Daniel.

  • Hi, Deborah.

  • So Bologna was raised in Chile.

  • He lived in Mexico, and then he spent his last years in Spain.

  • He died in 2003, which was the year that his work started to come out in english translation.

  • When did you first come across him?

  • Were you reading him before that in Spanish?

  • I'd heard of him.

  • He was one of those writers that was sort of starting to become very, very well known.

  • And then two years later, he was one of those writers that every university student had a copy of his book under their arm, and it just exploded.

  • I think I remember I was traveling in 2003, 2004, actually, when 26 66 arrived in Chile, and everyone was just devouring it.