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Bolaño: The Caracas Speech

Roberto Bolaño is a Chilean writer. When he won the Rómulo Gallegos award he gave this acceptance speech in Caracas (excerpt):
It was then that I had the first conscious inkling of my dyslexia. I shot with my left leg but wrote with my right hand. That was a fact. I would have liked to write [...]


Condenados

Siempre que llego a Caracas, cuando salgo del último túnel y se empieza a ver la ciudad, quiero bajar las ventanas. Respirar el aire de Caracas, sobretodo cuando vienes del DF, es como inhalar un elixir.
Le doy al botón para bajar el vidrio y no pasa nada. Le pregunto al conductor si puede quitarle [...]