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Francisco Díaz Klaassen
This article studies the poet as a key figure in Roberto Bolaño's narrative. Throughout his fiction, the poet will be constantly displaced from their time and turned into a subject akin to Nietzsche's untimely and Agamben's contemporary. Cast aside from history, he will be able to recognize and understand the presence of an absolute evil, recurring ad eternum throughout history. If the newly reinstated democracies in Latin America blindly embraced neoliberalism, putting an end to any utopic discourses, and thus rendering those who once chose the path of militancy obsolete, Bolaño will at least redeem the poet, by placing him above all and any historical contingencies. He will not be able to modify the course of history, but he will serve as a witness, if not a moral compass.
