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Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star

Author : I. López-Calvo
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349504886
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star written by I. López-Calvo and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-11-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roberto Bolaño has attained an almost mythical stature and is often considered the most influential Latin American writer of his generation. The first English-language volume of essays on the Chilean author, Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star: Critical Essays, includes ten critical essays of his oeuvre. With a special emphasis on his masterpieces: 2666, The Savage Detectives, By Night in Chile, and Distant Star, the essays address topics such as Borges's influence and the role of repetition, social memory, allegory, and neoliberalism.

Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star

Author : I. López-Calvo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137492961
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star written by I. López-Calvo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roberto Bolaño has attained an almost mythical stature and is often considered the most influential Latin American writer of his generation. The first English-language volume of essays on the Chilean author, Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star: Critical Essays, includes ten critical essays of his oeuvre. With a special emphasis on his masterpieces: 2666, The Savage Detectives, By Night in Chile, and Distant Star, the essays address topics such as Borges's influence and the role of repetition, social memory, allegory, and neoliberalism.

Distant Star

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811220524
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Distant Star written by Roberto Bolaño and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2004-12-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship. The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions. For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a college poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle becomes the silent hand behind every evil act in the darkness of Pinochet's regime. The narrator, unable to stop himself, tries to track Ruiz-Tagle down, and sees signs of his activity over and over again. A corrosive, mocking humor sparkles within Bolano's darkest visions of Chile under Pinochet. In Bolano's world there's a big graveyard and there's a big graveyard laugh. (He once described his novel By Night in Chile as "a tale of terror, a situation comedy, and a combination pastoral-gothic novel.") Many Chilean authors have written about the "bloody events of the early Pinochet years, the abductions and murders," Richard Eder commented in the The New York Times: "None has done it in so dark and glittering a fashion as Roberto Bolano."

By Night in Chile

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811215474
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book By Night in Chile written by Roberto Bolaño and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2003-12-17 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life. He believes he is dying, and in his feverish delirium various characters, both real and imaginary, appear to him as icy monsters, as if in sequences from a horror film. Among them are the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German novelist Ernst Junger, and General Augusto Pinochet - whom Father Lacroix instructs in Marxist doctrine - as well as various members of the Chilean intelligentsia whose lives, during a period of political turbulence, have touched his own."--Jacket.

The Unknown University

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811222535
Total Pages : 839 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Unknown University written by Roberto Bolaño and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deluxe edition of Bolano’s complete poetry Perhaps surprisingly to some of his fiction fans, Roberto Bolano touted poetry as the superior art form, able to approach an infinity in which “you become infinitely small without disappearing.” When asked, “What makes you believe you’re a better poet than a novelist?” Bolano replied, “The poetry makes me blush less.” The sum of his life’s work in his preferred medium, The Unknown University is a showcase of Bolano’s gift for freely crossing genres, with poems written in prose, stories in verse, and flashes of writing that can hardly be categorized. “Poetry,” he believed, “is braver than anyone.”

Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star

Author : I. López-Calvo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137492961
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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The Third Reich

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429967358
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Third Reich written by Roberto Bolaño and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war games champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals—the Wolf, the Lamb, and El Quemado—and to the darker side of life in a resort town. Late one night, Charly disappears without a trace, and Udo's well-ordered life is thrown into upheaval; while Ingeborg and Hanna return to their lives in Germany, he refuses to leave the hotel. Soon he and El Quemado are enmeshed in a round of Third Reich, Udo's favorite World War II strategy game, and Udo discovers that the game's consequences may be all too real. Written in 1989 and found among Roberto Bolaño's papers after his death, The Third Reich is a stunning exploration of memory and violence. Reading this quick, visceral novel, we see a world-class writer coming into his own—and exploring for the first time the themes that would define his masterpieces The Savage Detectives and 2666.

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.

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 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.

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.

Amulet

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811220486
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Amulet written by Roberto Bolaño and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tour de force, Amulet is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America. Amulet is a monologue, like Bolano's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becoming the "Mother of Mexican Poetry," hanging out with the young poets in the cafés and bars of the University. She's tall, thin, and blonde, and her favorite young poet in the 1970s is none other than Arturo Belano (Bolano's fictional stand-in throughout his books). As well as her young poets, Auxilio recalls three remarkable women: the melancholic young philosopher Elena, the exiled Catalan painter Remedios Varo, and Lilian Serpas, a poet who once slept with Che Guevara. And in the course of her imaginary visit to the house of Remedios Varo, Auxilio sees an uncanny landscape, a kind of chasm. This chasm reappears in a vision at the end of the book: an army of children is marching toward it, singing as they go. The children are the idealistic young Latin Americans who came to maturity in the '70s, and the last words of the novel are: "And that song is our amulet."

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.

Nazi Literature in the Americas

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811217949
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Nazi Literature in the Americas written by Roberto Bolaño and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-29 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A playful and entirely original novel masquerading as a mini-encyclopedia of nonexistent Nazi literature, Bolano's work is a tour de force of black humor.

The Savage Detectives

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330525808
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Savage Detectives written by Roberto Bolaño and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an afterword by Natasha Wimmer. Winner of the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize. Natasha Wimmer’s translation of The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and the New York Times. New Year’s Eve 1975, Mexico City. Two hunted men leave town in a hurry, on the desert-bound trail of a vanished poet. Spanning two decades and crossing continents, theirs is a remarkable quest through a darkening universe – our own. It is a journey told and shared by a generation of lovers, rebels and readers, whose testimonies are woven together into one of the most dazzling Latin American novels of the twentieth century.

The Skating Rink

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811220591
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Skating Rink written by Roberto Bolaño and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A phenomenally unusual three-way murder mystery. With a murder at its heart, Roberto Bolano’s The Skating Rink is, among other things, a crime novel. Murder seems to have exerted a fascination for the endlessly talented Bolano, who in his last interview, according to The Observer, “declared, in all apparent seriousness, that what he would most like to have been was a homicide detective.” Set in the seaside town of Z, north of Barcelona, The Skating Rink is told in short, suspenseful chapters by three male narrators, and revolves around a beautiful figure skating champion, Nuria Martí. A ruined mansion, knife-wielding women, political corruption, sex, and jealousy all appear in this atmospheric chronicle of a single summer season in a seaside town, with its vacationers, businessmen, immigrants, bureaucrats, social workers, and drifters.

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.