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Bolaño’s conception of Europe in relation to Latin America is suggested in the following remarks he made to an interviewer about a nude woman he observed on the Ramblas during his first night in Barcelona:
She was a woman who was walking around totally naked, and was talking. A fat woman. People let her talk, some listened to her and continued on their way, until a policeman approached her. I thought he was going to detain her. But instead of detaining her all he did was cover her with a kind of blanket. At that moment I realized I was in Europe. I have lived in Latin American countries where the violence is horrible. In some of these countries a police car would have stopped, they would have put the naked woman in the car, they would have taken her to a field to rape her and then kill her. Nothing happened here. Damn it, the difference is abysmal.
（Adolfo Cacheiro, 2022, p. Xiii)
