Three fiercely original tales. An unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent.
Roberto Bolano's boundless gift for shaping the chaos of reality into fiction is unmistakable across these three novellas. In 'Cowboy Graves,' Arturo Belano - Bolano's alter ego - returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades for socialism. 'French Comedy of Horrors' finds a seventeen-year-old recruited into a secret society of artists in the sewers of Paris. And in 'Fatherland,' a young poet reckons with the fascist overthrow of his country, as the woman he is obsessed with disappears in the ensuing violence.
TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER
'His work is as vital, thrilling and life-enhancing as anything in modern fiction' Sunday Times
'Fascinating... A rare opportunity for the reader to witness the creation of a seemingly inexhaustible body of work' El Pais
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The Savage Detectives may have made Bolano's name, but his posthumous publications-from the galactic 2666 to the winsome Spirit of Science Fiction-have cemented his legend. He left behind a vault to rival Prince's 'Paisley Park'. . . . The effect of Cowboy Graves is less the piecing together of a puzzle than the recentering of a whole, mythic world. * The New York Times Book Review * Companionable, exotic, witty and glamorously suggestive. * The Guardian * "Bolano readers can survey [Cowboy Graves] to glimpse into his artistic process, into the fountain of his creativity. . . . One of Bolano's great narrative skills is his ability to casually express the enigma of life, the lacuna between humanity's capacity for comprehension and the world's unknowable. . . . His writing is global and encyclopedic, curative and addictive, and vibrant and visceral. * Los Angeles Review of Books * Cowboy Graves contains writing completed over a period of 10 years, and features many of the touchstones Bolano was known for: semi-autobiographical narration; a humorous, fragmentary style; and the sort of intrigue that grabs hold of you and never lets go, despite offering no easy answers. * Chicago Review of Books * Bolano's brilliant oeuvre expands with another bright starburst, this one comprising three separate yet thematically connected novellas...Bolano's inimitable style and searing vision will appeal to fans and new readers alike. * Booklist * Each story reveals a centrifugal writer with a brilliant command of words and no fear of a plot's getting away from him. * Kirkus Reviews *
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Höhe: 194 mm
Breite: 123 mm
Dicke: 16 mm
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978-1-78487-944-0 (9781784879440)
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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.
