Roberto Bolaño 'would much rather have been a murder cop'
'I'd could come back to the scene of the crime alone, by night,' posthumously acclaimed Chilean author reveals in newly translated interviews
"I would like to have been a homicide detective, much more than being a writer," said acclaimed Chilean author Roberto Bolaño in his final interview, published in Spanish in the month of his death and due to be released in English for the first time today.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 24 November, 2009
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