Author: Roberto Bolaño

Cites

• Augusto Monterroso (1)
  • IN: Nazi Literature in The Americas (1996) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: If the flow is slow enough and you have a good bicycle, or a horse, it is possible to bathe twice (or even three times, should your personal hygiene so require) in the same river.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Edgar Allan Poe (1)
  • IN: Monsieur Pain (1999) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: P. Does the idea of death afflict you? V. (Very quickly.) No-no! P. Are you pleased with the prospect? V. If I were awake I should like to die, but now it is no matter. The mesmeric condition is so near death as to content me. P. I wish you would explain yourself, Mr Vankirk. V. I am willing to do so, but it requires more effort than I feel able to make. You do not question me properly. P. What then shall I ask? V. You must begin at the beginning. P. The beginning! But where is the beginning?
    FROM: Mesmeric Revelation, (1844), Poem, US
• Petronius (1)
  • IN: Amulet (1999) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In our misery we wanted to scream for help, but there was no one there to come to our aid
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Antonin Artaud (1)
  • IN: A Little Lumpen Novelita (2002) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs. All writers are pigs. Especially writers today.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1)
  • IN: The Third Reich (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Sometimes we played with traveling salesmen, other times with vacationers, and two months ago we were even able to condemn a German general to twenty years of imprisonment. He happened by with his wife, and only my wiles saved him from the gallows.
    FROM: Traps, (1956), Novel, Switzerland
• Franz Kafka (1)
  • IN: The Insufferable Gaucho (2003) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: So perhaps we shall not miss so very much after all.
    FROM: Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk, (1924), Short Story, Germany/Austria
• Blaise Pascal (1)
  • IN: Antwerp (2002) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: When I consider the brief span of my life absorbed into the eternity which comes before and after -- memoria hospitis unius diei praetereuntis -- the small space I occupy and which I see swallowed up in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I know nothing and which know nothing of me, I take fright and am amazed to see myself here rather than there: there is no reason for me to be here rather than there, now rather than then. Who put me here? By whose command and act were this place and time alloted to me?
    FROM: Pensées, (1670), Book, France
• Malcolm Lowry (1)
  • IN: The Savage Detective (2007) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: "Do you want Mexico to be saved? Do you want Christ to be our king?" "No."
    FROM: Under the Volcano, (1947), Novel, UK
• Charles Baudelaire (1)
  • IN: 2666 (2004) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.
    FROM: The Voyage, (1857), Poem, France
• William Faulkner (1)
  • IN: Distant Star (1996) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: What star falls unseen?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US

Cited by

• O' Brien, Edna (1)
  • IN: The Little Red Chairs (2015) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: An individual is no match for history.
    FROM: By Night in Chile, (2000), Novel, Chile
• Viet Thanh Nguyen (1)
  • IN: The Refugees (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I wrote this book for the ghosts, who, because they're outside of time, are the only ones with time.
    FROM: Antwerp, (2002), Short story, Chile
• Blake Butler (1)
  • IN: 300000000 (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every hundred feet the world changes.
    FROM: 2666, (2004), Novel, Chile