Roberto Bolano
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An unnamed narrator attempts to piece together the life and works of an enigmatic would-be poet turned military assassin during Pinochet's regime in Chile. In the early 1970s Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was a little-known poet living in southern Chile. After the military coup of 1973 that brought in the dict...
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This is the first collection by the universally acclaimed Chilean author to be published in English and it is an outstanding introduction to Bolaïo's writing. Bolaïo's narrators are grappling with their own private quests while living in the margins, on the edges, in constant flight from nightmarish...
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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 imaginar...
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Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, The Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño's last, unfinished novel. The novel follows Amalfitano--an exiled Chilean university professor and widower with a teenage daughter--as his political disillusionment and love of poetry...
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A masterwork from the pre-eminent Latin American writer of his generation 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, Ch...
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The Spirit of Science Fiction
Roberto Bolano
- Penguin publishing digital
- 5 February 2019
- 9780735222861
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Written in the last years of Roberto Bolaño’s life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as the great writer's masterpiece, surpassing even his previous work in imagination, beauty, and scope. At the centre of the book is the fictional city of Santa Teresa on the Mexico-US border. It i...
