"Chile Nights" tells the story: Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a priest and literary critic with a high fever, a mediocre poet, and a member of Opus Dei, thought he was going to die. On his deathbed, he reviewed the important moments in his life in one night. The following characters and plots appeared in sequence:
His association with Fairwell, the godfather of Chilean literary criticism, made him gradually aware of his homosexuality; Ernst Junger, and the Guatemalan painter who allowed himself to die of malnutrition in Paris, the latter scorned all well-intentioned help; two clients with ambiguous identities, a project to travel around Europe in search of An invitation to travel to find ways to preserve church buildings, an unrequited invitation to secretly teach Marxism courses to General Pinochet; and a mysterious woman who gathered prominent figures in Chilean literature in her suburban mansion, while in its basement there were horrific events comparable to horror movies...
