Great Chris Andrews Interview

For my money, Chris Andrews isn’t just one of the best translators out there; he’s also one of the most intelligent and articulate. To wit, this interview, conducted by Will Heyward for BOMB magazine. Loads of good talk about Bolano & Spanish-language writers.

One thing that makes [Bolaño’s] work distinctive is that there is a kind of double genealogy, in that Argentinean prose fiction writers like Borges and Cortázar and Puig are very important for him, but so too are Chilean poets, like Nicanor Parra and Enrique Lihn and Jorge Teillier. He read very widely in Latin American literature generally, in North American literature (he was an admirer of Don DeLillo, for example), and in European literature (I suspect that Bernhard did have an influence on the “rant books,” By Night in Chile and Amulet). One of the tasks of Bolaño criticism in the years to come will be tracing all these influences. Critics may eventually get hold of his notebooks and journals, which I’ve seen in a television documentary.

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