Bolaño Up Close and Personal

Generously included as a bonus DVD alongside the 502page Bolaño salvaje a book of essays about and reminiscences on the Chilean novelistpoet published by the Barcelonabased Editorial Candy Bolaño cercano a difficult to translate title approximating something like Bolaño Up Close and Personal which offers up a sympathetic portrait of Bolaño as a loving family man and tireless reader and writer and teases with ever so brief glimpses of his personal library and countless spiral notebooks filled with rough drafts of his novels and poetry and even comic booklike drawings and illustrations