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Arturo Belano is the alter ego of the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño. The character's first appearance was in the novella ''Distant Star'', where he was the narrator, while his most prominent role was in ''The Savage Detectives'' where he and fellow writer Ulises Lima are the central characters. Belano also appears in several short stories and in the novella ''Amulet''; he is of the same age and nationality as Bolaño, with many shared elements in their biographies including a move from Chile to Mexico in their teens with their families, traveling around the world, and finally settling in Spain. According to Bolaño's notes, Belano is also the narrator of the novel ''2666''. ==Appearances== *''Distant Star'' (1996) - as Arturo B.; narrator and character. in the introduction he is described as "a fellow Chilean...a veteran of Latin America's doomed revolutions, who tried to get himself killed in Africa." Bolaño explains that Arturo told him a shorter version of the story, which appears as the final chapter of ''Nazi Literature in the Americas'', but Arturo was displeased with the outcome: ::"So we took that final chapter and shut ourselves up for a month and a half in my house in Blanes, where, guided by his dreams and nightmares, we composed the present novel. My role was limited to preparing refreshments, consulting a few books, and discussing the reuse of numerous paragraphs with Arturo and the increasingly animated ghost of Pierre Menard."〔Bolaño, Roberto. ''Distant Star'' New York: New Directions, 2004. Introduction.〕 *''The Savage Detectives'' (1998) - main character *''Amulet'' (1999) - secondary character mentioned by the narrator/protagonist Auxilio Lacouture as her "favorite young poet, although he wasn't Mexican," and revealed to be of the same age and nationality as Bolaño: ::"I thought about young Arturo Belano, who was sixteen or seventeen when I met him in 1970. I was the mother of the new Mexican poetry and he was just a kid who couldn't hold his liquor, but he was proud that Salvador Allende had been elected president of his faraway Chile."〔Bolaño, Roberto ''Amulet'', New York: New Directions, 2006. p. 37.〕 *''2666'' (2004) - narrator, though this is not stated explicitly in the novel: ::Among Bolaño's notes for ''2666'' there appears the single line: "the narrator of 2666 is Arturo Belano." And elsewhere bolano adds, with the indication "for the end of ''2666''":"And that's it, friends. I've done it all, I've lived it all. If I had the strength, I'd cry. I bid you all goodbye, Arturo Belano."〔Echevarría, Ignacio. "Note to the First Edition", ''2666'' New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2008. p. 898〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arturo Belano」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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