There will be a Bolaño fever among those who see reading as an adventure. Like a meteor, Roberto Bolaño struck our literature - a voice from the edge of the world, an unflinching gaze into our souls. His novels, filled with broken heroes and lost illusions, tell of the exuberance of youth and the ironic wisdom of detectives: world novels in a new sense. Years before his magnum opus '2666', Bolaño presented a masterpiece with 'Star in the Distance': a novel about an aviator and artist centered around the legendary Carlos Wieder. His name repeatedly glimmers in contemporary Chile - as a writer, aesthetician, pilot, and as a figure of fascist terror. The poet friend becomes a dreadful adversary.