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you need this: http://www.amazon.com/Las-Ultimas-Composiciones-Violeta-Parra/dp/B0000UX4KS/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
I’m guessing you saw somewhere where Lu mentioned her? Or maybe not? She loves Violeta, who she remembers listening to when she lived in Santiago in high school.
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I’m guessing you saw somewhere where Lu mentioned her? Or maybe not? She loves Violeta, who she remembers listening to when she lived in Santiago in high school.
no, i haven’t – but it sure seems fitting that lucinda loves her. i knew the “lucinda connection” (santiago/chile) before posting here, and it did cross my mind, esp. because her suicide cronologically “fits” (ugh, bad phrasing here) with lucinda’s sojourn in santiago.
last year, a friend just threw her “ultimas composiciones” album at me – not literally – and said: LISTEN TO IT. i did and i was positively blown away. but i kinda put her aside until last night, when i went to see her movie biopic that opened in rio last week, “violeta se fue a los cielos” (violeta went to the skies, literally). i thought it was well-made and captivating, with superb, lyrical scenes concerning her childhood and overwrought scenes in the latter half (her sojourn in paris; that crazy relationship with the swiss guy). nonetheless, worth seeing. keep an eye for screenings in LA.
anyway, i strongly suggest this forum to hunt “ultimas composiciones” like meat after 1 year lost in a desert island drinking nothing but coconut water.
Small world. I will definitely keep any eye out for that movie. Lu will definitely want to see it. When we were in Spain she played the song Adios El Corazon Amonte -which she heard from Violeta’s recording when she lived in Santiago. I believe Miller either briefly knew or met her brother, the now famous poet Nicanor Parra, who was portrayed beautifully in a Roberto Bolano book that I read a few months ago-just can’t quite remember the title.
tom, nice! i’ve never read a bolaño in my life (a crying shame because i’m quite well-versed in latin american/spanish literature), but i asked a friend – a bolaño maniac – which one of his books had nicanor mentioned and his answer was: MOST OF THEM.
he appears briefly in the movie, and just as a child, as far as i remember. i also have never read anyting by him, so i’m thinking of downgrading the aforementioned well-versed to reasonably versed.
greetings!
The two that i’ve read and loved are By Night In Chile -that was the one I was referring to-and Lat Evenings On Earth which is a collection of short stories. I will be reading more by him as they continue to do more English translations.
tom, i think everything he wrote in life is already translated to english. i borrowed ‘by night in chile’, the original and the portuguese translation. a few years after bolaño’s death in 2003, he became quite a celebrity among the 1,000-2,000 brazilians that actually read books. i can’t think of a writer of this caliber that has enjoyed such a warm welcoming albeit late reception in this country.
i would recommend to you either SAVAGE DETECTIVES or 2066. both are held as the favorites according to close friends.
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