num_pages: 123
description: With the release of Roberto Bolaos The Savage Detectives in 1998journalist Monica Maristain discovered a writer capable of befriending his readers. After exchanging several letters with Bolao Maristain formed a friendship of her own culminating in an extensive interview with the novelist about truth and consequences an interview that turned out to be Bolaos last.Appearing for the first time in English Bolaos final interview is accompanied by a collection of conversations with reporters stationed throughout Latin America providing a rich context for the work of the writer who according to essayist Marcela Valdes is a T.S. Eliot or Virginia Woolf of Latin American letters. As in all of Bolaos work there is also wide-ranging discussion of the authors many literary influences. (Explanatory notes on authors and titles that may be unfamiliar to English-language readers are included here.) The interviews all of which were completed during the writing of the gigantic 2666 also address Bolaos deepest personal concerns from his domestic life and two young children to the realities of a fatal disease.
language: English
title: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
publisher: Melville House