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Roberto Bolaño

    April 28, 1953 – July 15, 2003

    Though always considering himself a poet at heart, Roberto Bolaño ultimately cemented his literary legacy through his novels, novellas, and short story collections. After a nomadic youth spent traveling across South America and Europe, he settled in Spain, taking on various manual labor jobs by day and writing at night. He eventually shifted to prose in his early forties, driven by a desire to provide for his family, though his work retained a profound poetic sensibility. Bolaño's writing is known for its raw honesty and exploration of life's darker facets, often imbued with a distinctive lyrical quality.

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    2666
    The Romantic Dogs
    The Unknown University
    Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003
    The Savage Detectives
    • The Savage Detectives

      • 592 pages
      • 21 hours of reading
      4.4(8873)Add rating

      The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age. National Bestseller New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run. The explosive first long work by "the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time" (Ilan Stavans, Los Angeles Times), The Savage Detectives follows Belano and Lima through the eyes of the people whose paths they cross in Central America, Europe, Israel, and West Africa. This chorus includes the muses of visceral realism, the beautiful Font sisters; their father, an architect interned in a Mexico City asylum; a sensitive young follower of Octavio Paz; a foul-mouthed American graduate student; a French girl with a taste for the Marquis de Sade; the great-granddaughter of Leon Trotsky; a Chilean stowaway with a mystical gift for numbers; the anorexic heiress to a Mexican underwear empire; an Argentinian photojournalist in Angola; and assorted hangers-on, detractors, critics, lovers, employers, vagabonds, real-life literary figures, and random acquaintances. A polymathic descendant of Borges and Pynchon, Roberto Bolaño traces the hidden connection between literature and violence in a world where national boundaries are fluid and death lurks in the shadow of the avant-garde. The Savage Detectives is a dazzling original, the first great Latin American novel of the twenty-first century.

      The Savage Detectives
    • A collection of poetry full of rage, hope and reminiscence, with text in both Spanish and English.

      The Romantic Dogs
    • An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared.

      2666
    • Tres

      • 64 pages
      • 3 hours of reading
      3.9(28)Add rating

      A collection of poems by Roberto Bolano, divided into three sections, each in Bolano's supremely creative trademark style.

      Tres
    • The Return

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      3.9(68)Add rating

      The powerful second volume of stories by the literary genius that is Roberto Bolano.

      The Return
    • Distant Star

      • 176 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
      4.0(297)Add rating

      Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chile's young poetry scene. Known for his daring sky poems, penned in smoke high above the cities, Weider's dazzling trajectory is a cause for astonishment and speculation amongst his old poetry friends. číst celé

      Distant Star
    • Roberto Bolano: The Last Interview

      • 128 pages
      • 5 hours of reading
      3.9(117)Add rating

      With the release of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives in 1998,journalist Monica Maristain discovered a writer “capable of befriending his readers.” After exchanging several letters with Bolaño, Maristain formed a friendship of her own, culminating in an extensive interview with the novelist about truth and consequences, an interview that turned out to be Bolaño’s last. Appearing for the first time in English, Bolaño’s final interview is accompanied by a collection of conversations with reporters stationed throughout Latin America, providing a rich context for the work of the writer who, according to essayist Marcela Valdes, is “a T.S. Eliot or Virginia Woolf of Latin American letters.” As in all of Bolaño’s work, there is also wide-ranging discussion of the author’s many literary influences. (Explanatory notes on authors and titles that may be unfamiliar to English-language readers are included here.) The interviews, all of which were completed during the writing of the gigantic 2666, also address Bolaño’s deepest personal concerns, from his domestic life and two young children to the realities of a fatal disease.

      Roberto Bolano: The Last Interview
    • This is the first collection by the universally acclaimed Chilean author to be published in English and it is an outstanding introduction to Bolano's writing. Bolano's narrators are grappling with their own private quests while living in the margins, on the edges, in constant flight from nightmarish threats.

      Last Evenings On Earth