Arturo Belano

A new art movement is the need of a specific era, though it is well to remember that it is the subsequent result of hundredsof years of slow growth. It often produces new methodologies that will eventually form the aesthetic, psychological approach of that time period .In history, a new literary movement arrives contradicting the existing movement with a new set of narrative techniques, plot, style of writing, style of living, etc. which wouldform the writers and their work in the successiveyears. Indeed, a breakthrough magnum opus that leads the inception of new literary movements like Lyrical Ballads, which was the harbingers of Romanticism and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Hundred Years of Solitude, which popularisedmagical realism etc.
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The writer – Roberto Bolano -- and the character – Arturo Belano -- live with the same dream and they have the same manifesto. Life written large everywhere and death looms large, again for both of them.However – the character is luckier to have it real earlier than the writer who had to wait till the early 20th century to see it real, despite announcing as early as in 1976.
In 1976, Roberto Bolano – then a twenty-three-year-old – had a revolutionary proclamation, which had made no instant impact on the world of letters. He, in front of Libreria Gandhi – read a manifesto asking his fellow poets to give up everything for poems and hit the road. The true poet, he said, should abandon the coffee house and take the part of ‘the sharp shooters, the lonesome cow boys… the spat-upon supermarket shoppers in the massive individual collective disjunctives – the cunning, the lonely, the unnoticed and