Found in the author's archive and published for the first time: a collection of three novellas - a joy for the many fans and followers of Roberto Bolano.
Roberto Bolaño Book order
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.
- 2021
- 2019
From a master of contemporary fiction, a tale of bohemian youth on the make in Mexico City 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 headfirst into the future, spending his days and nights with a circle of wild young writers, seeking pleasure in the city's labyrinthine streets, rundown cafés, and murky bathhouses. This kaleidoscopic work of strange and tender beauty is a fitting introduction for readers uninitiated into the thrills of Roberto Bolaño's fiction, and an indispensable addition to an ecstatic and transgressive body of work.
- 2016
A collection of poetry full of rage, hope and reminiscence, with text in both Spanish and English.
- 2016
A Little Lumpen Novelita percolates with a young writer's fierce ambitions and intensely tender love of women.
- 2015
The Unknown University
- 848 pages
- 30 hours of reading
The collected poems of Roberto Bolano, selected and ordered by the author.
- 2014
Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Now in paperback -- the sole collection of the great Chilean writer's essays
- 2014
A treasury of posthumous Roberto Bolano stories and essays - his last thoughts and writings.
- 2013
Tres
- 64 pages
- 3 hours of reading
A collection of poems by Roberto Bolano, divided into three sections, each in Bolano's supremely creative trademark style.
- 2013
The Insufferable Gaucho
- 176 pages
- 7 hours of reading
A treasure trove of strange, arresting, short masterworks from the genius that is Roberto Bolano.
- 2013
Woes of the True Policeman
- 250 pages
- 9 hours of reading
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.