By Night in Chile

Navigating Violence and the Nation in Seamus Heaney’s North and Roberto Bolaño’s By Night in Chile

This article won the 2019 Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand Postgraduate Essay Prize. It was published in volume 19 of the Australasian Journal of Irish Studies. ABSTRACT: This essay addresses the question of how writers exercise their

By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolaño’s By Night in Chile is a study in unreliable narration. It tells the story of the writer/priest/critic Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix as he reflects, from his death-bed, on certain events in his life, particularly those in connection to the Pinochet regime.