Category: El Salvador

  • The Crossed Paths of Roberto Bolaño and Roque Dalton

    The Crossed Paths of Roberto Bolaño and Roque Dalton

    In 2005, as Bolañomania was about to erupt on the international literary stage, the New York Times published a review of his posthumous novel 2666, which fueled the myth of Roberto Bolaño as a tragic, adventurous writer. The newspaper alluded to a meeting between Bolaño and the Salvadoran author Roque Dalton that never actually took…