Bolaño, the craftsman

Abstract

Roberto Bolaño's life was marked, also his great passion for literature, to diversity of jobs he developed as an immigrant in Europe to survive. Being laborer, who make a punctual trade for a long time, can help us understand why Bolaño could make such an abundant literary production. In this article we explore, through Richard Sennett raises about how a craftsman manages to perfect his trade, the way in which Bolaño conceived the writing and perfected his scriptural work.