A novel from the estate of the great Roberto Bolaño! This early novel, in which one might recognize the characters from Bolaño's celebrated work "The Savage Detectives," showcases the mastery of the young author: his exuberant originality and elegant break with narrative conventions. Mexico City in the seventies: Young Chileans Remo Morán and Jan Schrella live in a shabby attic and dream of writing. They renounce bourgeois values; their time is the magical moment between night and day. While Remo lets himself be carried away in ecstasy, Jan continuously writes letters to his favorite science fiction authors, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Silverberg, and James Tiptree Jr., asking for help for his Latin America suppressed by the FBI and CIA. Bolaño's carefree transgression of all genre boundaries, his literary playfulness: In "The Spirit of Science-".