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Woes of the True Policeman

Author : Roberto Bolano
Publisher : Penguin Canada
ISBN 13 : 0143186809
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Woes of the True Policeman written by Roberto Bolano and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, The Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño's last, unfinished novel. The novel follows Amalfitano—an exiled Chilean university professor and widower with a teenage daughter—as his political disillusionment and love of poetry lead to the scandal that will force him to flee from Barcelona and take him to Santa Teresa, Mexico. This border town is haunted by dark tales of murdered women and populated by characters such as Sorcha, who fought in the Andalusia Blue Division in the Spanish Civil War, and Castillo, who makes his living selling his forgeries of Larry Rivers paintings to wealthy Texans. It is here that Amalfitano meets Arcimboldi, a magician and writer whose work highlights the provisional and fragile nature of literature and life. Woes of the True Policeman is an exciting, kaleidoscopic novel, lyrical and intense, yet darkly humorous. Exploring the roots of memory and the limits of art, it marks the culmination of one of the great careers of world literature.

Woes of the True Policeman

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374266743
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Woes of the True Policeman written by Roberto Bolaño and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unfinished masterpiece from the author of THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES and 2666. Follows Amalfitano, exiled Chilean university professor and widower with a teenage daughter, as his political disillusionment and love of poetry lead to the scandal that will force him to flee from Barcelona and take him to Santa Teresa, Mexico. It is here, in this border town, that Amalfitano meets Arcimboldi, a magician and writer whose work highlights the provisional and fragile nature of literature and life.

2666

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466804823
Total Pages : 1053 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book 2666 written by Roberto Bolaño and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 1053 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of SantaTeresa—a fictional Juárez—on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.

Cowboy Graves

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735222894
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Cowboy Graves written by Roberto Bolaño and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One more journey to the universe of Roberto Bolaño, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literature Cowboy Graves is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent. Roberto Bolaño's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into fiction is unmistakable in these three novellas. In "Cowboy Graves," Arturo Belano--Bolaño's alter ego--returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades for socialism. "French Comedy of Horrors" takes the reader to French Guiana on the night after an eclipse where a seventeen year old answers a pay phone and finds himself recruited into the Clandestine Surrealist Group, a secret society of artists based 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 and a Third Reich fighter plane mysteriously writes her poetry in the sky overhead. These three fiercely original tales bear the signatures of Bolaño's extraordinary body of work, echoing the strange characters and uncanny scenes of his triumphs, while deepening our reverence for his gifts.

Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811218147
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003 written by Roberto Bolaño and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of most of Bolaño's newspaper columns, articles (many about other literary authors), prefaces, and texts of talks or speeches given by Bolaño during the last five years of his life. "Taken together, they make a surprisingly rounded whole . . . a kind of fragmented 'autobiography.'"--Introduction, p.1.

WOES OF THE TRUE POLICEMAN.

Author : ROBERTO. BOLANO
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781784879563
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (795 download)

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Download or read book WOES OF THE TRUE POLICEMAN. written by ROBERTO. BOLANO and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Secret of Evil

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811220583
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Secret of Evil written by Roberto Bolaño and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection that gathers everything Bolano was working on before his untimely death. A North American journalist in Paris is woken at 4 a.m. by a mysterious caller with urgent information. For V. S. Naipaul the prevalence of sodomy in Argentina is a symptom of the nation’s political ills. Daniela de Montecristo (familiar to readers of Nazi Literature in the Americas and 2666) recounts the loss of her virginity. Arturo Belano returns to Mexico City and meets the last disciples of Ulises Lima, who play in a band called The Asshole of Morelos. Belano’s son Gerónimo disappears in Berlin during the Days of Chaos in 2005. Memories of a return to the native land. Argentine writers as gangsters. Zombie schlock as allegory... The various pieces in the posthumous Secret of Evil extend the intricate, single web that is the work of Roberto Bolano.

The Spirit of Science Fiction

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1760784737
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of Science Fiction written by Roberto Bolaño and published by Picador. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An intriguing and dreamy portrait of two writers taking different paths in their pursuit of their love of literature, hoping to discover their voices." Publishers Weekly A tale of bohemian youth on the make in Mexico City from a master of contemporary fiction, and a sublime precursor to The Savage Detectives. Two young poets, Jan and Remo, find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life in the literary world - or sacrifice themselves to it. Roberto Bolaño's The Spirit of Science Fiction is a story of youth hungry for revolution, notoriety, and sexual adventure, as they work to construct a reality out of the fragments of their dreams. But as close as these friends are, the city tugs them in opposite directions. Jan withdraws from the world, shutting himself in their shared rooftop apartment where he feverishly composes fan letters to the stars of science fiction, and dreams of cosmonauts and Nazis. Meanwhile, Remo runs head-first into the future, spending his days and nights with a circle of wild young writers, seeking pleasure in the city's labyrinthine streets, rundown cafes, and murky bathhouses. The Spirit of Science Fiction is a kaleidoscopic work of strange and tender beauty, and a fitting introduction for readers uninitiated into the thrills of Roberto Bolaño's fiction. It is an indispensable addition to an ecstatic and transgressive body of work. PRAISE FOR ROBERTO BOLAÑO "The most influential and admired novelist of his generation." Susan Sontag "When I read Bolaño I think: Everything is possible again. To step inside his books is to accustom yourself, as much as is possible, to walking along the edge of an abyss." Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love and Great House "Roberto Bolaño was an exemplary literary rebel. To drag fiction toward the unknown he had to go there himself, and then invent a method with which to represent it." The New York Review of Books "Not since Gabriel García Márquez . . . has a Latin American redrawn the map of world literature so emphatically as Roberto Bolaño does . . . It's no exaggeration to call him a genius." The Washington Post Book World

A Little Lumpen Novelita

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811223361
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book A Little Lumpen Novelita written by Roberto Bolaño and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in Spain just before Bolano’s death, A Little Lumpen Novelita percolates with a fierce and tender love of women “Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime”: so Bianca begins her tale of growing up the hard way in Rome. Orphaned overnight as a teenager—“our parents died in a car crash on their first vacation without us”—she drops out of school, gets a crappy job, and drifts into bad company. Her younger brother brings home two petty criminals who need a place to stay. As the four of them share the family apartment and plot a strange crime, Bianca learns how low she can fall. Electric, tense with foreboding, and written in jagged, propulsive chapters, A Little Lumpen Novelita delivers a surprising, fractured fable of seizing control of one’s fate.

Roberto Bolaño's Fiction

Author : Chris Andrews
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231537530
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Roberto Bolaño's Fiction written by Chris Andrews and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading translator of Bolaño's work into English, explores the singular achievements of the author's oeuvre, engaging with its distinct style and key thematic concerns, incorporating his novels and stories into the larger history of Latin American and global literary fiction. Andrews provides new readings and interpretations of Bolaño's novels, including 2666, The Savage Detectives, and By Night in Chile, while at the same time examining the ideas and narrative strategies that unify his work. He begins with a consideration of the reception of Bolaño's fiction in English translation, examining the reasons behind its popularity. Subsequent chapters explore aspects of Bolaño's fictional universe and the political, ethical, and aesthetic values that shape it. Bolaño emerges as the inventor of a prodigiously effective "fiction-making system," a subtle handler of suspense, a chronicler of aimlessness, a celebrator of courage, an anatomist of evil, and a proponent of youthful openness. Written in a clear and engaging style, Roberto Bolano's Fiction offers an invaluable understanding of one of the most important authors of the last thirty years.

The Insufferable Gaucho

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811220532
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Insufferable Gaucho written by Roberto Bolaño and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These five astonishing stories, along with two compelling essays, show Bolano as a magician, pulling bloodthirsty rabbits out of his hat. The stories in The Insufferable Gaucho — unpredictable and daring, highly controlled yet somehow haywire — might concern a stalwart rat police detective investigating terrible rodent crimes, or an elusive plagiarist, or an elderly Argentine lawyer giving up city life for an improbable return to the familye state on the Pampas, now gone to wrack and ruin. These five astonishing stories, along with two compelling essays, show Bolano as a magician, pulling bloodthirsty rabbits out of his hat.

The Romantic Dogs: Poems

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081122399X
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Romantic Dogs: Poems written by Roberto Bolaño and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listed as a "2009 Indie Next List Poetry Top Ten" book by the American Booksellers Association: Roberto Bolano as he saw himself, in his own first calling as a poet. Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) has caught on like a house on fire, and The Romantic Dogs, a bilingual collection of forty-four poems, offers American readers their first chance to encounter this literary phenomenon as a poet: his own first and strongest literary persona. These poems, wide-ranging in forms and length, have appeared in magazines such as Harper's, Threepenny Review, The Believer, Boston Review, Soft Targets, Tin House, The Nation, Circumference, A Public Space, and Conduit. Bolano's poetic voice is like no other's: "At that time, I'd reached the age of twenty/and I was crazy. /I'd lost a country/but won a dream./Long as I had that dream/nothing else mattered...."

Antwerp (New Directions Pearls)

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811219917
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Antwerp (New Directions Pearls) written by Roberto Bolaño and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Antwerp's" signature elements--crimes and campgrounds, drifters and poetry, sex and love, corrupt cops and misfits--mark this, his first novel, as pure Bolao. A elegantly produced, small collectible stamped cover-on-cloth edition.

Tres (Bilingual Edition)

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811224155
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Tres (Bilingual Edition) written by Roberto Bolaño and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Poetry is braver than anyone,” Roberto Bolan~o believed, and the proof is here in Tres, his most inventive and bracing poetry collection. Roberto Bolan~o’s Tres is a showcase of the author’s willingness to freely cross genres, with poems in prose, stories in verse, and flashes of writing that can hardly be categorized. As the title implies, the collection is composed of three sections. “Prose from Autumn in Gerona,” a cinematic series of prose poems, slowly reveals a subtle and emotional tale of unrequited love by presenting each scene, shattering it, and piecing it all back together, over and over again. The second part, “The Neochileans,” is a sort of On the Road in verse, which narrates the travels of a young Chilean band on tour in the far reaches of their country. Finally, the collection ends with a series of short poems that take us on “A Stroll Through Literature” and remind us of Bolan~o’s masterful ability to walk the line between the comically serious and the seriously comical.

Last Evenings on Earth

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811216883
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Last Evenings on Earth written by Roberto Bolaño and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of the "failed generation" set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe.

The Return

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 9780330510615
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Return written by Roberto Bolaño and published by Picador. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the remarkable qualities of Bolaño's short stories is that they seem to tell what Bolaño called 'the secret story', 'the one we'll never know'. The Return contains thirteen unforgettable tales bent on returning to haunt you, most of them appearing in English for the first time here. Wide-ranging, suggestive, and daring, a Bolaño story is just as likely to concern the unexpected fate of a beautiful ex-girlfriend, the history of a porn star or two embittered police detectives debating their favourite weapons: his plots go anywhere and everywhere and they always surprise. Consider the title piece: a young party animal collapses in a Parisian disco and dies on the dance floor; just as his soul is departing his body, it realizes strange doings are afoot - and what follows next defies the imagination (except Bolaño's own, of course).

Woes of the True Policeman

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466827734
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Woes of the True Policeman written by Roberto Bolaño and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño's last, unfinished novel. The novel follows Óscar Amalfitano—an exiled Chilean university professor and widower—through the maze of his revolutionary past, his relationship with his teenage daughter, Rosa, his passion for a former student, and his retreat from scandal in Barcelona. Forced to leave Barcelona for Santa Teresa, a Mexican city close to the U.S. border where women are being killed in unprecedented numbers, Amalfitano soon begins an affair with Castillo, a young forger of Larry Rivers paintings. Meanwhile, Rosa, Amalfitano's daughter, engages in her own epistolary romance with a basketball player from Barcelona, while still trying to cope with her mother's early death and her father's secrets. After finding Castillo in bed with her father, Rosa is forced to confront her own crisis. What follows is an intimate police investigation of Amalfitano that involves a series of dark twists, culminating in a finale full of euphoria and heartbreak. Featuring characters and stories from his other books, Woes of the True Policeman invites the reader more than ever into the world of Roberto Bolaño. It is an exciting, kaleidoscopic novel, lyrical and intense, yet darkly humorous. Exploring the roots of memory and the limits of art, Woes of the True Policeman marks the culmination of one of the great careers of world literature.