Roberto Bolaño's Teenage Life in Los Angeles and the Exhibition that Recalls Him

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On a wall of the Cultural Center of Los Angeles hang five small drawings, each in a white frame the size of a postcard. They are portraits drawn with quick lines in blue paste pencil. Below some appears a brief signature: “R. Bolaño”. Roberto Bolaño made them in 1973, when he returned to Chile after years in Mexico. Today these drawings are part of the exhibition “Bolaño, return to the native country”, which opened on March 16 in this city of so…