Deserto

Intense, humorous and provocative,  Bolaño’s Deserto envelops the audience in his concerns and invites us all to engage in a collective reflection: what is the role of the writer and of poetic creation amid the violence of the contemporary world?

The work of Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) comes to life on stage through fragments of books, interviews and memoirs by the Chilean author, considered one of the great Latin American writers of the 20th century. Livera embodies the writer, placing his body and voice at the service of extracts from works such as La universidad desconocida, 2666, El gaucho insufrible and Entre paréntesis. Through poems, stories, lectures and interviews, Bolaño’s existential and artistic concerns are revealed, especially in his final years, when, already ill, he devoted himself intensely to creation.

The piece focuses on the poet’s journey: a man in transit, born in Chile, who passes through Mexico and settles in Spain; a journey marked by displacement, exile and helplessness, but driven, above all, by literary passion and by a rejection of the rules of the system.