in The lawsuit filed by the writer’s widow, Carolina López, with his ‘lover’ Carmen Pérez de Vega for damages against the honor is hearing for sentencing. While, the biography of the author of ‘Los detectives salvajes’ is still postponed until 15 years after his death
it Seems ironic that those who do jump through the air, the boom will occur that The colonel does not have who type, but it is true. Roberto Bolaño don’t have someone to write his biography. She hasn’t had in 15 years since his death waiting for a liver transplant, or will have in a long time. At least, until your private life is not the subject of litigation in courts.
Any approach to the life of the writer, especially in his last years, can sin of partial or biased, because there are two versions conflicting and irreconcilable at this point. Clashed on Wednesday in the Court of First Instance No. 11 of Barcelona in a prosecution for a violation of the “right to honor and personal and family privacy” that has been seen for sentencing.
The plaintiff is Carolina López, the widow’s legal writer, and their two children, Lautaro and Alexandra. And the respondent, with 250,000 euros in repair concept of honor, Carmen Pérez de Vega, alleged “lover” or “last pair” of the writer, according to one version or another, in the various statements which have appeared in the media in recent years. The lawsuit also extends by the same amount to a group of people and means allocated, and spread that statute sentimental in the figure of Carmen Pérez de Vega, who accompanied Bolano in his last admission to the hospital and brought in person to the editorial Anagram of the floppy disk that contained his last book finished, The gaucho unbearable. That is to say, also defendants, are: the journalist Monica Maristain, the author of the book The son of Mr. Beach (which was not presented at trial), newspapers chilean Mercury and The third and the authors of the documentary Distant Star Gonzalo Maier and Darinka Guevara.
Both López and Pérez de Vega, consulted by this reporter, declined to make any statement. It is known that at the trial, behind closed doors, was attended by a dozen of witnesses presented by both parties, in a range that goes from friends of the writer as A. G. Porta, Bruno Montane or the critic Ignacio Echevarría, until neighbors of Blanes, the friend of the mother of Bolaño Henar Galán, the sister of the widow Montserrat Lopez (now in charge of the file of the writer), professor José María Micó or Lali Gubern Anagram.
Decide what type of relationship had the author of The detectives, the savage Pérez de Vega in his last years seems an absurd topic of conversation pink, but it is the only reason of litigation, because the rights to their work remain invariably in the hands of widow and children. Sources say that the process responds to an attempt of the plaintiff of “delete” to Perez de Vega of the writer’s life. For the moment, the conflict has only delayed any biography, authorized or not, and hindered the work of potential researchers. For Valerie miles, the first aesthetic catalogue File Bolaño and curator of the exhibition of the same name, the key is that “the children are very young”. “Alexandra was not even two years old when his father died. Carolina [Lopez] only want to protect their children.”
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