Description
As Pankaj Mishra remarked in The Nation, one of the remarkable qualities of Bolano's short stories is that they can do the "work of a novel." The Insufferable Gaucho contains tales bent on returning to haunt you. Unpredictable and daring, highly controlled yet somehow haywire, a Bolano story might concern an elusive plagiarist or an elderly lawyer giving up city life for an improbable return to the family estate, now gone to wrack and ruin. Bolano's stories have been applauded as "bleakly luminous and perfectly calibrated" (Publishers Weekly) and "complex and provocative" (International Herald Tribune), and as Francine Prose said in The New York Times Book Review, "something extraordinarily beautiful and (at least to me) entirely new." Two fascinating essays are also included.
About the Author
Author of 2666 and many other acclaimed works, Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) was born in Santiago, Chile, and later lived in Mexico, Paris, and Spain. He has been acclaimed "by far the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time" (Ilan Stavans, The Los Angeles Times)," and as "the real thing and the rarest" (Susan Sontag). Among his many prizes are the extremely prestigious Herralde de Novela Award and the Premio Romulo Gallegos. He was widely considered to be the greatest Latin American writer of his generation. He wrote nine novels, two story collections, and five books of poetry, before dying in July 2003 at the age of 50. The poet and translator Chris Andrews has won the Valle Inclan Prize and the French-American Translation Prize for his work.
Reviews
"A spellbinder." -- Newsweek
"An exemplary literary rebel." -- Sarah Kerr - The New York Review of Books
"Bolano wrote with the high-voltage first-person braininess of a Saul Bellow and an extreme subversive vision of his own." -- Francisco Goldman - The New York Times Magazine
Book Information
ISBN 9780811217163
Author Roberto Bolano
Format Hardback
Page Count 176
Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation
Weight(grams) 339g
Dimensions(mm) 211mm * 145mm * 20mm
About the Author
Author of 2666 and many other acclaimed works, Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) was born in Santiago, Chile, and later lived in Mexico, Paris, and Spain. He has been acclaimed "by far the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time" (Ilan Stavans, The Los Angeles Times)," and as "the real thing and the rarest" (Susan Sontag). Among his many prizes are the extremely prestigious Herralde de Novela Award and the Premio Romulo Gallegos. He was widely considered to be the greatest Latin American writer of his generation. He wrote nine novels, two story collections, and five books of poetry, before dying in July 2003 at the age of 50. The poet and translator Chris Andrews has won the Valle Inclan Prize and the French-American Translation Prize for his work.
Reviews
"A spellbinder." -- Newsweek
"An exemplary literary rebel." -- Sarah Kerr - The New York Review of Books
"Bolano wrote with the high-voltage first-person braininess of a Saul Bellow and an extreme subversive vision of his own." -- Francisco Goldman - The New York Times Magazine
Book Information
ISBN 9780811217163
Author Roberto Bolano
Format Hardback
Page Count 176
Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation
Weight(grams) 339g
Dimensions(mm) 211mm * 145mm * 20mm
