13 must-read fiction books like By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews

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By Night in Chile

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.89

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m…

"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

If you liked the fiction plot in By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

1. The Crying of Lot 49

By: Thomas Pynchon

3.69

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

Cover of An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira, Roberto Bolaño, Chris    Andrews

2. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

By: César Aira , Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.88

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German ar… read more

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  • novels
  • literature
  • latin american
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 21st century
  • contemporary
"Were the “pampas,"

-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

"...the transformation would be accomplished not in the dimension of time but in that of meaning."

-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

"A drove of mules the size of ants appeared in silhouette on a ridgetop path, moving at a star's pace. The mules were driven by human intelligence and commercial interests, expertise in breeding and b…"

-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

"It was hard to believe that this was a route used virtually throughout the year by travelers, mule drivers and merchants. Anyone in their right mind would have regarded it as a means of suicide. Near…"

-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

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3. My Documents

By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Archived in a folder on award-winning author Alejandro Zambra's desktop are 11 stories of liars and… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • latin american
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary

4. Zanjón de la Aguada

By: Pedro Lemebel

4.00

Format: None pages,

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5. The Loser

By: Thomas Bernhard , Jack Dawson

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovatio… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of Satantango by George Szirtes, László Krasznahorkai

6. Satantango

By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai

4.14

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"They’re waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them. They are waiting, belly to the ground, like cats at pig-killing time, hoping for …"

-George Szirtes, Satantango

"Irimiás: God is not made manifest in language, you dope. He's not manifest in anything. He doesn't exist... God was a mistake. I've long understood there is zero difference between me and a bug, or a…"

-George Szirtes, Satantango

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7. Ways of Going Home

By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Ways of Going Homebegins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine-year-old boy.… read more

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  • literature
  • latin american literature
  • latin american
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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8. By Night in Chile

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.89

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more

Similar categories in Roberto Bolaño's By Night in Chile book and Roberto Bolaño's By Night in Chile

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • literature
  • latin american literature
  • latin american
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 21st century
  • contemporary
"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

9. Respiración artificial

By: Ricardo Piglia

3.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

Respiracion artificialse trata no solo del unico libro memorable publicado durante el periodo de la… read more

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10. Ficciones

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan

3.53

Format: 320 pages,

The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more

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11. Senselessness

By: Katherine Silver , Horacio Castellanos Moya

4.00

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

A boozing, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loa… read more

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12. The Rings of Saturn

By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more

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13. La piedra de la locura

By: Benjamín Labatut

3.48

Format: 71 pages, Paperback

Una fascinante reflexión sobre el caos y la locura a partir de teorías científicas, expresiones lit… read more

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  • spanish literature
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14. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

Cover of Literatura infantil by Alejandro Zambra

15. Literatura infantil

By: Alejandro Zambra

4.25

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Diario de paternidad, «carta al hijo» y ficción pura conviven en extraordinaria armonía a lo largo … read more

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  • literature
  • latin american
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"No recuerdo nuestro primer viaje solos, a mis tres o cuatro años, pero él lo ha contado tantas veces que su relato funciona casi como un recuerdo implantado."

-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil

"La biología nos asegura un lugar en sus vidas, pero igual ansiamos que nos elijan como padres. Que alguna vez digan esta frase tan maravillosamente rara: 'Mi padre fue mi verdadero padre'."

-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil

"Me enorgullece que la primera palabra pronunciada por mi hijo, hace cinco días, haya sido, contra toda tendencia estadística, la palabra papá. Ahora la dice a cada rato. Todavía le cuesta, eso sí, ar…"

-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil

"La lectura silenciosa es en cierto modo una conquista; quienes leemos en silencio y en soledad aprendemos, justamente, a estar solos, o mejor dicho reconquistamos una soledad menos agresiva, una sole…"

-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil

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16. Poeta chileno

By: Alejandro Zambra

4.39

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

En Santiago de Chile, a principios de los años noventa del pasado siglo, dos quinceañeros, Gonzalo … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • latin american
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"fumar rabiosamente y aguantar las lágrimas, lo que no era fácil, porque fumar y llorar son actividades complementarias"

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

"Decir que eso la felicidad: nunca sentir que sería mejor estar en otra parte, nunca sentir que sería mejor ser alguien más. Otra persona. Alguien más joven, más viejo. Alguien mejor."

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

"El padre señala con sutileza y autoridad la forma correcta de patear la pelota, porque el padre sabe de esas cosas. El padre se deja ganar, porque para ser un buen padre hay que dejarse ganar. Ser pa…"

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

"It is better to write than not to write. Poetry is subversive because it exposes you, tears you apart. You dare to distrust yourself. You dare to disobey. That's the idea, to disobey everyone. Disobe…"

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

Cover of Santo Remedio (Nueva Biblioteca) (Spanish Edition) by Rafael Courtoisie

17. Santo Remedio (Nueva Biblioteca) (Spanish Edition)

By: Rafael Courtoisie

3.58

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

Rare book read more

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Cover of Pegame que me gusta by Lalo Barrubia

18. Pegame que me gusta

By: Lalo Barrubia

4.05

Format: None pages, None

Las voces de los dos protagonistas se alternan capítulo a capítulo en "Pegame que me gusta" para na… read more

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19. Lumpérica

By: Diamela Eltit

3.54

Format: 227 pages, Paperback

En la visión surgida en el transcurso de una noche, una mujer da cuenta en Lumpérica de un mundo qu… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Usta puna zemlje by Branimir Šćepanović

20. Usta puna zemlje

By: Branimir Šćepanović

4.40

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Ovaj roman, za koji je Scepanovic dobio Oktobarsku nagradu Beograda, ovim, jedanaestim izdanjem na … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction

8 Top contemporary books like By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews

Transform Your Habits

The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

Transform Your Habits

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

César Aira , Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.88

Transform Your Habits

My Documents

Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Satantango

George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai

4.14

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18 Best fiction books like Poeta chileno by Alejandro Zambra

Transform Your Habits

Las primas

Aurora Venturini

3.91

Tengo Miedo Torero

Pedro Lemebel

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Bad Girls

Camila Sosa Villada

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas

Irene Solà

3.91

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