Amidst the seedy hotels and deserted campsites of the Costa Brava, someone has gone missing.
A detective sets out to find them. They search among the hapless girls, failed poets, and shifty policemen that populate this dream world - but every door opens onto a nightmare.
An experimental novella, spliced together in vignettes, Antwerp is Roberto Bolano's first work of fiction. A personal declaration of the power of literature, to read it is to be present at 'the big bang' of Bolano's enterprise into prose, to see the beginning, to witness the moment when his talent explodes.
TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER
'A fascinating, even compulsory addition to the Bolano fan's bookshelf' Daily Telegraph
'Bolano set a new speed limit for literature. He simply wrote past other authors... His books are volcanic, perilous, charged with infectious erotic energy and demonic lucidity' Benjamin Labatut, author of The Maniac
Rezensionen / Stimmen
A fascinating, even compulsory addition to the Bolano fan's bookshelf . . . the sentences whizz over your head like bullets. * Daily Telegraph * It's hard to think of a writer who has multiplied the possibilities more times than Roberto Bolano. * Guardian * There is great value if you are already a devotee. * The Morning News, Boston *
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Maße
Höhe: 191 mm
Breite: 125 mm
Dicke: 9 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-78487-942-6 (9781784879426)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Roberto Bolano (Author)
Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealism poetry movement. Described by the New York Times as 'the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation', he was the author of over twenty works, including The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998, and 2666, which posthumously won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Bolano died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty, just as his writing found global recognition.
Natasha Wimmer (Translator)
Natasha Wimmer is the translator of nine books by Roberto Bolano, including The Savage Detectives and 2666. Her recent translations include Nona Fernandez's Voyager and Alvaro Enrigue's Sudden Death.
