Roberto Bolaño
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
3) 2666
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
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.
4) The return
Author
Publisher
New Directions Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of thirteen stories, including the title piece which focuses on a young party animal who dies on the dance floor of a Parisian disco, only to realize that strange doings are afoot as his soul begins to leave his body.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Español
Description
La novela narra la búsqueda de la poetisa mexicana Cesárea Tinajero, por parte de dos jóvenes poetas fundadores de un movimiento de poesía llamado los real visceralistas, el chileno Arturo Belano y el mexicano Ulises Lima.
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 Cesarea Tinajero....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"A comedic novel from the author of The Savage Detectives and 2666"--
"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 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,...
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A Little Lumpen Novelita percolates with a young writer's fierce ambitions and intensely 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 in A Little Lumpen Novelita. 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, sees a terrible brightness...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Una clave más del universo literario de Roberto Bolaño, uno de los escritores imprescindibles de la literatura contemporánea en español. Este volumen incluye tres nouvelles inéditas -"Patria", "Sepulcros de vaqueros" y "Comedia del horror de Francia"- en las que está presente lo mejor del genio literario del autor chileno: el Mal, la violencia, la historia, la literatura, la ironía, México, Chile, el amor, el suspense, la búsqueda... a lo...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Los cuentos de Boląo condensan en el breve espacio que caracteriza las obras del ǧnero todo su universo literario, uno de los m̀s rupturistas y personales de la literatura contempor̀nea en espąol: la literatura que lo impregna todo; la sexualidad; las vidas de seres que pese a ser comunes, transcurren entre lo cotidiano y lo extraordinario; la rebeld̕a de aquellos que viven en la estrecha frontera que separa el sistema de la marginalidad; el...
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A tour de force of black humor, composed of short biographies of imaginary pan-American authors, providing sketch character portraits that are often pathetically funny, sometimes surprisingly moving, and on occasion, authentically chilling.