from Bolano's "Nazi Literature in the Americas"--The Fabulous Schiaffino Boys--

"He began to write poetry at the age of thirteen. At sixteen, while his elder brother was making his name with "The Path to Glory", he produced fifty mimeographed copies of his first book, at his own expense and risk. It was a series of thirty epigrams entitled "Anthology of the Best Argentine Jokes"; over one weekend he personally sold all the copies to members of the Boca gangs. In April 1973, employing the same editorial strategy, he published his story "The Invasion of Chile", an exercise in black humor (some passages resemble a splatter movie script) about a hypothetical war between the two republics. In December of the same year he published the manifesto "We’re Not Going to Take It", in which he attacked the league’s umpires, whom he accused of bias, lack of physical fitness, and, in some cases, drug use..."