Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolano

Dr Chris Andrews

A chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship.

Distant Star

Tilsim

Mösyö Pain

"Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, sacerdote y critico literario, miembro del Opus Dei y poeta mediocre, revisa en una sola noche de fiebre alta los momentos mas importantes de su vida, convencido de que esta a punto de morir, aunque a medida que la noche avanza su fiebre va remitiendo y el delirio se atenua con la aparicion de monstruos gelidos."

Nocturno de Chile

Cesar Vallejo, renowned Peruvian poet, lies dying in hospital - he's hiccupping himself to death. When the doctors struggle to offer a diagnosis, his wife pins her hopes on the mesmerist and reclusive bachelor Pierre Pain. But after the appearance of two mysterious Spaniards, Monsieur Pain finds his access to the hospital barred and things soon go awry... Set in the rainy, crepuscular streets of an unsettled 1938 Paris, Monsieur Pain merges the best of Borges with Edgar Allan Poe, and its dark blend of unrequited desire, guilt, grief and betrayal makes this a gripping noir conspiracy as rich as it is strange.

Monsieur Pain

'A fascinating, even compulsory addition to the Bolaño fan's bookshelf . . . the sentences whizz over your head like bullets' Daily Telegraph Antwerp was Roberto Bolaño's first novel, though he chose not to publish it until 2002, more than twenty years after he'd written it. Set amidst the seedy hotels and deserted campsites on the Costa Brava, and filled with hapless girls, failed poets, and shifty policemen, Antwerp is a short and cinematic experimental crime novel spliced together with voices from a dream, from a nightmare, from passers-by, from an omniscient narrator, from 'Roberto Bolaño'. Intense and irrepressible, the novel is a personal declaration of the power of literature; reading it is to be present at the birth of Bolaño's enterprise in prose, to see the beginning, to witness the moment when his talent explodes. 'It's hard to think of a writer who has multiplied the possibilities more times than Roberto Bolaño' Nicole Krauss, Guardian

Antwerp

Roberto Bolaño confirmed his place as a giant of Latin American literature with his novels The Savage Detectives and 2666. Included in this one-of-a-kind collection is everything he was working on just before his death in 2003. A North American journalist in Paris is woken at 4 a.m. by a mysterious caller with urgent information. For V. S. Naipaul, the prevalence of sodomy in Argentina is a symptom of the nation's political ills. Daniela de Montecristo (of Nazi Literature in the Americas and 2666) recounts the loss of her virginity. Arturo Belano - Bolaño's alter ego - returns to Mexico City and meets a band called The Asshole of Morelos. Belano's son Gerónimo disappears in Berlin during the Days of Chaos in 2005. Memories of a return to the native land. Argentine writers as gangsters. Zombie schlock as allegory . . . Opening The Secret of Evil is like being granted access to the Chilean master's personal files; it offers a final opportunity to read the work of an intense, brilliant and truly original writer.

Secret of Evil

Juan Villoro

Julio Cortázar

Matthias Politycki

Alban Nikolai Herbst

Keto von Waberer

und andere Erzählungen aus und über Lateinamerika

Perspektivenwechsel 01. Fantomas gegen die multinationalen Vampire

The Savage Detectives, 1st US Edition

Insufferable Gaucho

Uzak Yildiz

Katil Orospular

Meesterwerk van de Chileense auteur Roberto Bolaño, wiens oeuvre wij met ingang van dit najaar (opnieuw) zullen uitgeven, te beginnen met deze postuum verschenen roman die wordt gezien als Bolaño's magnum opus: een hallucinerende, epische roman gesitueerd in de grensstreek tussen Mexico en de Verenigde Staten, waar voortdurend vrouwen en meisjes worden vermoord. Niemand weet wie achter de (honderden) moorden zit: de maffia, een psychopaat, de overheid? 2666 is een universeel verhaal over goed en kwaad, leven en dood, fictie en feit, een van de belangrijkste romans die deze eeuw zijn verschenen.

2666

'Dit is de roman die Borges had willen schrijven' El País De wilde detectives vertelt het verhaal van twee hedendaagse don quichotes, de Mexicaanse dichters Arturo Belano en Ulises Lima, die met drugsdeals in hun levensonderhoud voorzien. Hun zoektocht naar een verdwenen dichteres uit de vorige eeuw verandert in een tragikomische queeste die hen over de hele wereld en dwars door verschillende tijdvakken voert. Als ze uiteindelijk zelf spoorloos verdwijnen, haalt een kleurrijk gezelschap herinneringen aan hen op: mislukte schrijvers, geschifte kunstenaars, misdadigers, architecten, hoertjes en neonazi's. De wilde detectives is een geestdriftige, wellustige, hoogst originele en ambitieuze roman waarin onze krankzinnige wereld en dwaze tijd aan ons voorbijtrekken. Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) is de superster van de Latijns-Amerikaanse literatuur; sinds zijn veelvuldig bekroonde roman De wilde detectives in 1998 verscheen is zijn omvangrijke oeuvre alom geprezen. Met zijn meesterwerk 2666 trad Bolaño definitief toe tot de literaire canon. Inmiddels zijn ook de romans Antwerpen en Naziliteratuur in de Amerika's in een Nederlandse vertaling verschenen. 'De wilde detectives stemt melancholisch en maakt weerbaar. Het laat zien hoe moeilijk het is om de hoop die je hebt als je jong bent, vast te houden' The New York Times

De wilde detectives

Roberto Bolaño is most widely known for his groundbreaking novels and irreverent poetry, but as he became increasingly famous he found himself in great demand as a writer of non-fiction. Between Parentheses collects most of the newspaper columns and articles Bolaño wrote during the last five years of his life, as well as the texts of some of his speeches and talks, and a few scattered prologues. Cantankerous and insufferably opinionated, Bolaño's subjects range from literary criticism to tender pieces about his family and favourite places; works of passionate disparagement sit alongside fierce advocation of his heroes and favourite contemporaries; he argues for courage and bravery in the face of failure and vehemently demands 'creativity in all levels'. Furthermore, Between Parentheses offers an opportunity to discover the man behind the international phenomena: it is, as the book's editor Ignacio Echevarría remarks in his introduction, 'a personal cartography of the writer: the closest thing, among all his writings, to a kind of fragmented "autobiography." '

Between Parentheses

Natasha Wimmer

Chris Andrews

A new collection of short fiction gathers everything the author was working on before his death, including a story about a North American journalist receiving a mysterious call in Paris and a woman's recounting of the loss of her virginity. By the author of Nazi Literature in the Americas and 2666.

The Secret of Evil

I ”Nocturne for Chile” følger vi en katolsk præst, Urrutia, som ligger for døden. Hans liv passerer revy for ham i en feberdøs. Personer som Ernst Jünger og Pablo Neruda bliver en del af handlingen, det samme gør Opus Dei og undervejs påtager hovedpersonen sig blandt andet at undervise general Pinochet i marxisme. Urrutia reflekterer i den forbindelse over sin egen rolle under Pinochet-regimet, og forsøger at overbevise sig selv om, at han ikke var medskyldig i regimets forbrydelser. Men det hele ramler for Urrutia, og det er svært at skelne erindring fra surreal rablen. Snart går Urrutias erindringer fra dårligt til værre. ”Nocturne for Chile” er en fantastisk skarp roman om chilensk politik under Pinochets diktatur, om forfattere og om det at skrive.

Nocturne fra Chile

This bilingual collection of forty-four poems presents English readers with their first chance to encounter the phenomenon of Roberto BolaÃ±o as a poet: his own preferred and strongest literary persona. (When asked, âe~What makes you believe that youâe(tm)re a better poet than a novelist?âe(tm) BolaÃ±o replied, âe~The poetry makes me blush less.âe(tm)) These poems âe" intimate, moving, witty and wide-ranging âe" are as diverse in form as his fiction and will offer the reader equal delight. Expertly translated from the original Spanish by Laura Healy, this is as an opportunity to encounter a poetic voice like no other; a voice hailed by Susan Sontag as âe~the real thing and the rarestâe(tm). âe~They radiate the audacity of intellect, as well as the cruelty of vision, that have won their author a devoted following.âe(tm) Boston Review âe~They [the poems] echo his brilliant but out-of-control authorial persona, with its high-speed, self-conscious verbal play, and those echoes will be more than enough to lead fans of his prose straight to his verse.âe(tm) Publisherâe(tm)s Weekly âe~Poems that unscroll like black-and-white movies or occupy the page like a tattoo, art and life entwine, and all is sinister and precious.âe(tm) Booklist

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