Roberto Bolaño. Illustration by Hache Holguin.


"I saw him reading a book by Tablada, maybe the one where Don José Juan says: 'Under fearful skies / keening for the only star / the song of the nightingale.' Which is as if to say, boys, I said, that I saw our struggles and dreams all tangled up in the same failure, and that failure was called joy."


Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives
(Picador, 2012)