A deluxe edition of Bolaño's collected poetry Perhaps surprisingly to some of his fiction fans, Roberto Bolaño touted poetry as the superior art form, able to approach an infinity in which "you become infinitely small without disappearing." When asked, "What makes you believe you're a better poet than a novelist?" Bolaño replied, "The poetry makes me blush less." The sum of his life's wor…
Rife with political corruption, sex, and jealousy, 'The Skating Rink' is a darkly atmospheric chronicle of one summer season in the seaside town of Z. It revolves around the figure skating champion Nuria Marti. When she is suddenly dropped from the Olympic team an admirer builds an ice rink for her in the ruins of a mansion."
A deathbed confession revolving around Opus Dei and Pinochet, By Night in Chile pours out the self-justifying dark memories of the Jesuit priest Father Urrutia. As through a crack in the wall, By Night in Chile's single night-long rant provides a terrifying, clandestine view of the strange bedfellows of Church and State in Chile. This wild, eerily compact novel�Roberto Bola�o's first w…
The Chilean writer, Roberto Bola�o, has been creeping up the lists of �most popular foreign language writer� for several years now and Picador�s Amulet, his fifth novel to be translated and published in English, confirms Bola�o�s rise. He is best known in the English speaking world for Savage Detectives and the posthumously published 2666 for which he received the 2008 National Book…
A playful and entirely original novel masquerading as a mini-encyclopedia of nonexistent Nazi literature in our hemisphere by Roberto Bola�o: 'his generation's premier Latin-American writer' (The New York Times). A tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of writers who espoused extreme right-wing i…
The novel is narrated in first person by numerous narrators and divided into three parts. The first section, 'Mexicans Lost in Mexico', is told by 17-year-old aspiring poet, Juan Garc�a Madero. It centers on his admittance to a roving gang of poets who refer to themselves as the Visceral Realists. He drops out of university and travels around Mexico City, becoming increasingly involved with t…