Last Evenings On Earth by Roberto Bolano
This is the first collection by the universally acclaimed Chilean author to be published in English and it is an outstanding introduction to Bolano's writing. Bolano's narrators are grappling with their own private quests while living in the margins, on the edges, in constant flight from nightmarish threats.
The most influential and admired novelist of his generation in the Spanish-speaking world
Bolaño's language, alert and always graceful, his way of constructing narratives that are simultaneously disconcerting, brilliant and infinitely immediate, is a form of resisting evil, adversity and mediocrity * Le Monde *
‘Roberto Bolaño's oeuvre is among the great, blistering literary achievements of the twentieth century’ -- Lauren Groff
‘Roberto Bolaño was a game changer: his field was politics, poetry and melancholia . . . and his writing was always unparalleled.’ -- Mariana Enríquez
‘Roberto Bolaño's fiction was hallucinatory, haunting and experimental.’ * Times Literary Supplement *
Bolaño's language, alert and always graceful, his way of constructing narratives that are simultaneously disconcerting, brilliant and infinitely immediate, is a form of resisting evil, adversity and mediocrity * Le Monde *
‘Roberto Bolaño's oeuvre is among the great, blistering literary achievements of the twentieth century’ -- Lauren Groff
‘Roberto Bolaño was a game changer: his field was politics, poetry and melancholia . . . and his writing was always unparalleled.’ -- Mariana Enríquez
‘Roberto Bolaño's fiction was hallucinatory, haunting and experimental.’ * Times Literary Supplement *
Roberto Bolaño (Author)
Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile in 1953 and died in Catalonia in 2003. He was widely regarded as the essential Latin American writer of our age. He was best known for his novels (including The Savage Detectives, which won a number of prestigious literary awards, Nocturno de Chile, translated as By Night in Chile, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award) and his short stories, first published in English in Last Evenings on Earth.
Chris Andrews (Translator)
Chris Andrews was born in Newcastle, Australia, in 1962. He teaches in the department of French, Italian and Spanish Studies of the University of Melbourne. His translation of Roberto Bolaño's Distant Star in 2005 won the prestigious Valle-Inclán Prize.
Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile in 1953 and died in Catalonia in 2003. He was widely regarded as the essential Latin American writer of our age. He was best known for his novels (including The Savage Detectives, which won a number of prestigious literary awards, Nocturno de Chile, translated as By Night in Chile, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award) and his short stories, first published in English in Last Evenings on Earth.
Chris Andrews (Translator)
Chris Andrews was born in Newcastle, Australia, in 1962. He teaches in the department of French, Italian and Spanish Studies of the University of Melbourne. His translation of Roberto Bolaño's Distant Star in 2005 won the prestigious Valle-Inclán Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099469421 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099469421 |
| Title | Last Evenings On Earth |
| Author | Roberto Bolaño |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2008-04-03 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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