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One more journey to the universe of Roberto Bolano, an essential
voice of contemporary Latin American literature Cowboy Graves is an
unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent.
Roberto Bolano'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--Bolano'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 Bolano's extraordinary body of work, echoing the
strange characters and uncanny scenes of his triumphs, while
deepening our reverence for his gifts.
New Year’s Eve, 1975. Two hunted men leave Mexico City in a borrowed
white Impala.
Their quest: to track down the mythical, vanished poet Cesárea
Tinajero. But, twenty years later, they are still on the run. The
Savage Detectives is their remarkable journey through our darkening
universe. Told, shared and mythologised by a generation of lovers,
rebels and readers, their testimonies are woven together into one of
the most dazzling Latin American novels of all time.
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2666 (Paperback)
Roberto Bolano; Translated by Natasha Wimmer
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R772
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A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
New York Times Book Review "10 Best Books of 2008
"Time "Magazine's"" Best Book of 2008 "Los Angeles Times "Best
Books of 2008
"San Francisco Chronicle'"s 50 Best Fiction Books of 2008
"Seattle Times "Best Books of 2008
"New York Magazine "Top Ten Books of 2008
" Three academics on the trail of a reclusive German author; a New
York reporter on his first Mexican assignment; a widowed
philosopher; a police detective in love with an elusive older
woman--these are among the searchers drawn to the border city of
Santa Teresa, where over the course of a decade hundreds of women
have disappeared.
In the words of "The Washington Post," "With "2666," Roberto Bolano
joins the ambitious overachievers of the twentieth-century novel,
those like Proust, Musil, Joyce, Gaddis, Pynchon, Fuentes, and
Vollmann, who push the novel far past its conventional size and
scope to encompass an entire era, deploying encyclopedic knowledge
and stylistic verve to offer a grand, if sometimes idiosyncratic,
summation of their culture and the novelist's place in it. Bolano
has joined the immortals."
In this dazzling novel, the book that established Robert Bolano's
international reputation, he tells the story of two modern-day
Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement,
perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through their
darkening, entropic world.
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Amulet (Paperback)
Roberto Bolano; Translated by Chris Andrews
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R416
R349
Discovery Miles 3 490
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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. It is
September 1968 and the Mexican student movement is about to run
head-on into the repressive right-wing government of Mexico:
hundreds of young people will soon die. When the army invades the
university, one woman hides in a fourth-floor ladies' room and for
twelve days she is the only person left on campus. Staring at the
floor, she recounts her bohemian life among the young poets of
Mexico City-- inventing and reinventing freely-- and along the way
she creates a cosmology of literature. She is Auxilio Lacouture,
the Mother of Mexican Poetry. Auxilio speaks of her passionate
attachment to young poets as well as to two beloved aged poets, to
a woman who once slept with Che Guevera, and to the painter
Remedios Varo, recalling visits which never occured. And as they
grow ever more hallucinatory, her memories become mythologies
before completely transforming into riveting dark prophecies.
Hair-raising and enthralling, Amuletis a heart-breaking novel and
another brilliant example of the art of Roberto Bolan o, the most
admired novelist, as Susan Sontag noted, in the Spanish-speaking
world.
One more journey to the literary universe of Roberto Bolaño, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literature
Roberto Bolaño’s boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into enduring fiction is unmistakable in these three exhilarating 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.
Cowboy Graves is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a master of contemporary fiction. These three fiercely original tales bear the signatures of Bolaño’s extraordinary body of work, echoing the strange characters and uncanny scenes of his great triumphs, while deepening our understanding of his profound gifts.
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a
moment in the life of the German artist Johan Moritz Rugendas
(1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was
advised by Alexander von Humboldt to travel West from Europe to
record the spectacular landscapes of Chile, Argentina, and Mexico.
Rugendas did in fact become one of the best of the
nineteenth-century European painters to venture into Latin America.
However this is not a biography of Rugendas. This work of fiction
weaves an almost surreal history around the secret objective behind
Rugendas' trips to America: to visit Argentina in order to achieve
in art the "physiognomic totality" of von Humboldt's scientific
vision of the whole. Rugendas is convinced that only in the
mysterious vastness of the immense plains will he find true
inspiration. A brief and dramatic visit to Mendosa gives him the
chance to fulfill his dream. From there he travels straight out
onto the pampas, praying for that impossible moment, which would
come only at an immense pricean almost monstrously exorbitant price
that would ultimately challenge his drawing and force him to create
a new way of making art. A strange episode that he could not avoid
absorbing savagely into his own body interrupts the trip and
irreversibly and explosively marks him for life.
Featuring several mass-murdering authors, two fraternal writers at
the head of a football-hooligan ring and a poet who crafts his
lines in the air with sky writing, Roberto Bolano's Nazi Literature
in the Americas details the lives of a rich cast of characters from
one of the most extraordinary imaginations in world literature.
Written with sharp wit and virtuosic flair, this encyclopaedic
group of fictional pan-American authors is the terrifyingly
humorous and remarkably inventive masterpiece which made Bolano
famous throughout the Spanish-speaking world.
Uno de los 10 libros del ano del
"New York Times Book Review"
Cuatro academicos tras la pista de un enigmatico escritor aleman;
un periodista de Nueva York en su primer trabajo en Mexico; un
filosofo viudo; un detective de policia enamorado de una esquiva
mujer --estos son algunos de los personajes arrastrados hasta la
ciudad fronteriza de Santa Teresa, donde en la ultima decada han
desaparecido cientos de mujeres.
Publicada postumamente, la ultima novela de Roberto Bolano no solo
es su mejor obra y una de las mejores del siglo XXI, sino uno de
esos excepcionales libros que trascienden a su autor y a su epoca
para formar parte de la literatura universal.
Author of "The Savage Detectives" and "2666"
Crushed by a devastating scandal, university professor Oscar
Amalfitano flees Barcelona for Santa Teresa--a Mexican city close
to the U.S. border, where women are being killed in staggering
numbers. There, Amalfitano begins an affair with Castillo, a young
forger of Larry Rivers paintings, while his daughter, Rosa, reeling
from the weight of his secrets, seeks solace in a romance of her
own. Yet when she finds her father in bed with Castillo, Rosa is
confronted with the full force of her crisis.
What follows is an intimate police investigation of Amalfitano,
leading to a finale of euphoria and heartbreak. Featuring
characters and stories from "The Savage Detectives" and "2666,"
Roberto Bolano's "Woes of the True Policeman" mines the depths of
art, memory, and desire--and marks the culmination of one of the
great careers of world literature.
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The Third Reich (Paperback)
Roberto Bolano; Translated by Natasha Wimmer
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R486
R406
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A "New York Times Book Review" Editors' Choice
On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game
champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava
where he spent his summers as a child. There, they meet another
vacationing German couple, who introduce them to the darker side of
the resort town's life. Soon Udo is enmeshed in a round of the
Third Reich, his favorite World War II strategy game, with a
shadowy local called El Quemado. As the game draws to its
conclusion, Udo discovers that the outcome may be all too real.
Written in 1989, "The Third Reich" is a stunning exploration of
memory and violence---and a rare glimpse at a world-class writer
coming into his own.
Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, suffering from a fever and
fearing that he is dying, recalls the most important events in his
life, from Paris in 1943 to Chile under General Pinochet.
"Una obra maestra." --"The New Yorker"
Arturo Belano y Ulises Lima, dos quijotes modernos, salen tras las
huellas de Cesarea Tinajero, la misteriosa escritora desaparecida
en Mexico en los anos posteriores a la revolucion. Esa busqueda
--el viaje y sus consecuencias-- se prolonga durante veinte anos,
bifurcandose a traves de numerosos personajes y continentes, Con
escenarios como Mexico, Nicaragua, Estados Unidos, Francia y
Espana, y personajes entre los que destacan un fotografo espanol a
punto de la desesperacion, un neonazi, un torero mexicano jubilado
que vive en el desierto, una estudiante francesa lectora de Sade,
una prostituta adolescente en permanente huida, un abogado gallego
herido por la poesia y un editor mexicano perseguido por unos
pistoleros, Los detectives salvajes es una novela donde hay de
todo: amores y muertes, asesinatos y fugas, manicomios y
universidades, desapariciones y apariciones.
Los detectives salvajes es la novela que lanzo a Roberto Bolano a
la fama literaria internacional antes de que "2666" estableciera su
reputacion para siempre. El libro gano el Premio Herralde de Novela
y el Premio Romulo Gallegos, y fue uno de los libros del ano para
"The Washington Post, ""Los Angeles Times" y "The New York Times
Book Review."
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Amberes (Spanish)
Roberto Bolano
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R319
Discovery Miles 3 190
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Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix is dying. A priest, a member of
Opus Dei, a literary critic and a poet, in his feverish delirium
the crucial events of his past swell around him. From glimpses of
the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German writer Ernst Junger and his
one-time student, General Pinochet, to nightmarish flashes of
falcons and falconers, the Chilean landscape and faces of those now
dead, reality and imagination crowd and clamber in pursuit of the
'wizened youth' who still haunts Father Lacroix all these years
later. Translated by Chris Andrews Elegant, pocket-sized
paperbacks, VINTAGE Editions celebrate the audacity and ambition of
the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world
literary innovation may be found.
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