firesideangel
2 months ago
I think that Lupe, from Savage Detectives, seems to actually have been a real person and was Bolaño’s prostitute lover, and the story about her life is mostly true. It wasn’t too hard to find out since he wrote a poem about her called Lupe. Any other Bolaño fun facts you know?
meinkafka
2 months ago
He went to Chile to support Allende but got arrested. He was then released only because one of the prison guards was his high school buddy. I think he was lying about this to be honest but I prefer it that way. I like an author who self-mythologizes a bit.
firesideangel
2 months ago
He definitely did go to Chile and got arrested because I think friends and a publisher have confirmed it, but whether it was really friends from high school who got him out who knows. I think he went to high school in Mexico City but dropped out. It’s certainly still possible he knew the guards.
meinkafka
1 month ago
Oh yeah no doubt about him going to Chile. It just seems so Bolaño-esque it's easy to be skeptical, but where's the fun in that