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Originally Posted by Peeping Tom
What strikes me about the description of the novel (by Daniel and Shaunrandol, and others) is that one element of the story (the prison and the sky writing poet) also appears in Nazi Literature in the Americas. This isn’t unusual for Bolaño.
Haruki Murakami is another writer who does this.
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Indeed, the last part of
Nazi Literature in the Americas is the base for the novel
Distant Star. I read first Distant Star, so when I read that last part it was a little disappointing to know what it was going to happen, however it was a nice exercise to see where the idea came and how he fully developed it to a novel.
Murakami does that a lot. Two of his novels,
Sputnik Sweetheart and
Tokyo Blues, are based on two short stories (don't remember their names) that were published in
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.
Coincidently Bolaño and Murakami are both, two of my favorite contemporanean writers.