and the rest it's literature

I think because of Bonsai I thought for a couple months (when I was a teenager) that I should deliver my life to the literature, and maybe become a writer. Bonsai it is written for the chilean Alejandro Zambra, a very prodigious writer who has recently turned 41 years old. He wrote Bonsai when he was 31. And I read it when I was 16. The book begins telling us the end of the story, something like: boy meets girl, girl leaves him and then she died, then Zambra writes the following words: "the rest is literature". I love how the author doesn't seems interested in the final events of his first novel, he doesn't even want to get an authentic plot. He just wants to write a 72 pages synopsis-story about the complexity in the daily nature. Sometimes it's better to take care for a Bonsai than face your own struggles.

Constantly, I think chilean literature it's lock to itself just like geographically Chile does. But Zambra doesn't give the feeling of being afraid of the outside. He face the big names in literature and turn them into the story. 

Just seems like Bonsai is also a novel that talks about literature.