The short story, "Detectives".
I'm reading the recently published collection of short stories at the minute and there's one called "Detectives". In it, two Chilean policemen discuss, amongst other things, the time when they had former classmate Arturo Belano in one of their cells for a few days during the coup.
Obviously, Belano is Bolaño and the account seems based on Bolaño's real experience as told through the eyes of two fictional cops.
I was wondering if anyone knows to what extent Bolaño is giving us a true account of his brief time in a Santiago jail before he left Chile forever, or how embellished it is, and whether the cops/ex-classmates are based on real people, too? There seems to be minimal information online about this story.
More broadly, it's amongst the more interesting of the short stories I've read so far. It's purely dialogue and feels inspired by Jules and Vincent in Pulp Fiction.