Roberto Bolaño

Joko vuonna 1971 tai 1972, kun presidentti Salvador Allende on vielä elossa, tämän kirjan kertoja tapaa Concepciónin yliopiston runokurssilla Alberto Ruiz-Taglen, joka kirjoittaa etäisiä ja varovaisia runoja, viettelee naiset ja herättää miehissä epäluuloja. Sotilasvallankaappauksen jälkeen jopa 18-vuotiaat runoilijat viskataan äkkiarvaamatta veriseen aikuisuuteen, ja kertoja kohtaa saman miehen uudestaan ymmärtämättä, että tämä hävittäjälentäjä, Chilen ilmavoimien luutnantti Wieder, joka kirjoittaa taivaalle Raamatun jakeita toisen maailmansodan aikaisella Messerschmitt-lentokoneella, ja runokursseilla käynyt nuori runoilija ovat yksi ja sama henkilö.Maanpakolaisena Euroopassa - välissään ajallinen ja fyysinen etäisyys - kertoja, kesyttämätön etsivä Arturo B. tutkii ja avaa lukijalle runoilija-lentäjä Carlos Wiederin tarinan, joka on samalla tarina Chilen verisestä lähimenneisyydestä. Mytologioiden ja kirjallisuuden haarautuvien polkujen kautta avautuu tarina huijarista, miehestä jolla on monta nimeä ja jolle moraali on puhtaasti esteettistä. Runoilijalentäjä on kauheuksien dandy, barbaarinen taiteilija, jonka teoksilla on tappavat seurauksensa.Chileläissyntyisen, tämän vuosituhannen ensimmäiseksi kansainväliseksi klassikkokirjailijaksi ylistetyn Roberto Bolañon (1953-2003) vuonna 1996 julkaistu Etäinen tähti on hänen kolmas romaaninsa. Se on sekä synkän satiirinen salapoliisikertomus että kylmäävän ajaton tutkielma fasistin mielenlaadusta ja sen vaikutuksista taiteelliseen herkkyyteen. Teoksen on elävästi espanjan kielestä suomentanut Jani Sipari.

ROBERTO BOLANO föddes 1953 i Chile och dog 50 år gammal på ett sjukhus i Barcelona i väntan på en levertransplantation. Han var redan då en av den spanskspråkiga världens mest ryktbara författare, men det stora internationella genombrottet kom först efter hans död. DEN ODRÄGLIGE GAUCHON var det sista manus Bolaño färdigställde och lämnade in till sin förläggare, bara några veckor före sin död. Bolanos rappa berättarstil är omisskännlig, liksom hans förmåga att skriva fram och väcka medkänsla för sina udda figurer -- om det så är advokaten i titelnovellen som genom en händelse blir en förvildad gaucho på Pampas, eller råttan Pepe Tira i den kafkaartade detektivnovellen »Råttpolisen«. Samlingen består av fem noveller och två essäer och är översatt av Yvonne Blank.»En sämre författare hade gjort roman av det som här utspelas på kring 20 sidor.«Claes Wahlin i Aftonbladet, om Noveller 1: Telefonsamtal

2666 on kansainvälinen arvostelu- ja myyntimenestys. Roberto Bolaño vyöryttää lukijan tajuntaan rajakaupunki Santa Teresan silmittömän naisiin kohdistuvan väkivallan ja toisen maailmansodan julmuuden. Teoksessa neljä eurooppalaista yliopistotutkijaa etsii salaperäistä saksalaiskirjailijaa. Newyorkilainen toimittaja lähtee ensimmäiselle juttumatkalleen Meksikoon. Kuolleen isänsä kanssa keskusteluja käyvä chileläinen leskifilosofi luisuu kohti olemassaolon syöveriä. Meksikolainen rikoskomisario rakastuu pidättyväiseen mielisairaalanjohtajaan. 2666 valaisee ihmismielen kätkettyjä sopukoita ja laventuu katsaukseksi ihmiskunnan tilasta. "Bolaño todistaa että romaani pystyy mihin tahansa." - New York Times

I Chile kort tid før President Allende blir avsatt i et kupp av Pinochet, treffes en gruppe venstreorienterte idealister for å diskutere poesi og politikk. Tre av dem er poeter og den fremste er den enigmatiske Alberto Ruiz-Tagle. Kvinnene er tiltrukket av ham, mens mennene ser på ham med mistenksomhet. Etter kuppet avsløres det at han er jagerflypilot og Pinochet-supporter med tysk opphav og at hans egentlige navn er Carlos Weider. Ved siden av å utføre drap på vegne av juntaen, blir han landskjent for å bruke jagerflyet til å skriver poesi i luften. Han organiserer også en fotoutstilling der motivene er ofre for drapene han har begått. Weiders perfomance-kunst blir til slutt for mye for hans overordnede og han rømmer landet – med en detektiv i helene.En stjerne i det fjerne blander politikk, historie og poesi og de brutale hendelsene tydeliggjør både regimets grusomhet og litteraturens ambivalens. «Den beste Bolaño-boken er Estrella Distante» Chris Andrews, oversetter av Bolaño til engelsk og forfatter av boken «Roberto Bolaño's Fiction: An Expanding Universe»

I Chile kort tid før President Allende blir avsatt i et kupp av Pinochet, treffes en gruppe venstreorienterte idealister for å diskutere poesi og politikk. Tre av dem er poeter og den fremste er den enigmatiske Alberto Ruiz-Tagle. Kvinnene er tiltrukket av ham, mens mennene ser på ham med mistenksomhet. Etter kuppet avsløres det at han er jagerflypilot og Pinochet-supporter med tysk opphav og at hans egentlige navn er Carlos Weider. Ved siden av å utføre drap på vegne av juntaen, blir han landskjent for å bruke jagerflyet til å skriver poesi i luften. Han organiserer også en fotoutstilling der motivene er ofre for drapene han har begått. Weiders perfomance-kunst blir til slutt for mye for hans overordnede og han rømmer landet – med en detektiv i helene.En stjerne i det fjerne blander politikk, historie og poesi og de brutale hendelsene tydeliggjør både regimets grusomhet og litteraturens ambivalens. «Den beste Bolaño-boken er Estrella Distante» Chris Andrews, oversetter av Bolaño til engelsk og forfatter av boken «Roberto Bolaño's Fiction: An Expanding Universe»

A majestic, visionary and life-spanning collection of poetry from the first great classic writer of the 21stcentury, Roberto Bolano. Though he reached international literary stardom for his novels, Roberto Bolaño always considered himself, first and foremost, a poet. This volume unites more than three hundred poems, written from his youth to his final years, that probe the animating themes at the core of his oeuvre: literature, politics, exile, love, death. Audacious and unique, this collection reveals Bolaño’s full, extraordinary life in verse. ‘An epic artistic journey . . . filled with sorrows and joys and discoveries’ Los Angeles Times ‘Bolaño was a game changer: his field was politics, poetry and melancholia . . . and his writing was always unparalleled’ Mariana Enríquez

Bola o en primera persona: una oportunidad nica de «escuchar la voz y las opiniones de un autor que es un aut ntico mito literario contempor neo. Este volumen re ne una selecci n de las entrevistas concedidas por Roberto Bola o desde sus primeros a os en M xico, cuando viv a la literatura como rebeld a y ruptura contra el sistema desde el infrarrealismo, hasta las concedidas d as antes de su muerte. A trav s de estos textos asistimos a algo que fuera de la literatura ya no es posible: podemos escucharle hablar de poes a, de sus lecturas, de su obra, de sus colegas, de su vida... Observamos c mo un poeta se transforma en un novelista, y a c mo un escritor que malvive en sus inicios de lo que escribe empieza a transformarse en lo que hoy es: un mito literario internacional. Bola o se muestra aqu a ratos cido, cr tico, pero en otras ocasiones es divertido, tierno, muy humano. Y siempre genial. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Bola o in the first person: a unique opportunity to "hear" the voice and opinions of an author who is a true contemporary literary legend. This volume brings together a selection of interviews given by Roberto Bola o from his early years in Mexico, when he experienced literature as rebellion and a break with the system through infrarealism, to those given days before his death. Through these texts, we witness something that is no longer possible outside of literature: we can hear him talk about poetry, his readings, his work, his colleagues, his life... We observe how a poet transforms into a novelist, and how a writer who ekes out a meager living from his writing in his early days begins to transform into what he is today: an international literary legend. Bola o is at times scathing and critical, but at other times he is funny, tender, and very human. And always brilliant.

"Imaginative, full of a love for literature, and . . . exceptionally entertaining." --The Washington Post Mass-murdering authors. Writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring. A pilot who crafts his poetry in the sky. A tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of pan-American writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Terrifyingly witty and remarkably inventive, Nazi Literature in the Americas is the virtuosic, one-of-a-kind masterpiece that brought Bola o fame throughout the Spanish-speaking world.

" One of] his masterpieces." --Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book ReviewAlberto Ruiz-Tagle was once a quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chile's young poetry scene. But the military coup of 1973 sees Alberto reborn as the new regime's leading poet, Carlos Wieder. Known for his daring sky poems, penned in smoke high above the cities, Weider's dazzling trajectory is a cause for astonishment and speculation among his old poetry friends. Where did this monstrous talent suddenly spring from? And how is it connected to the disappearance of the beautiful Garmendia twins? Told from across the years in exile in Europe, the narrator's attempts to trace the fate of his old circle will lead him to one last confrontation with the brutality of their generation.

"An epic artistic journey . . . filled with sorrows and joys and discoveries." --H ctor Tobar, Los Angeles Times Though he reached international literary stardom for his novels, Roberto Bola o always considered himself, first and foremost, a poet. This volume unites more than three hundred poems, written from his youth to his final years, that probe the animating themes at the core of his oeuvre: literature, politics, exile, love, death. Audacious and sui generis, this collection reveals Bola o's full, extraordinary life in verse.

Anotatsija "2666", Roberto BolanoRoman podilenij na p'jat vilno pov'jazanikh rozdiliv. Chastina "Kritiki" rozpovidaje istoriju chotirokh literaturnikh kritikiv z riznikh jevropejskikh krajin, jakikh ob'jednuje oderzhimist kultovim nimetskim romanistom na im'ja Benno fon Arkhimboldi. Pro nogo malo scho vidomo, i koli kritiki diznajutsja, scho jogo ostannje mistseperebuvannja - prikordonne meksikanske misto Santa-Tereza, to virushajut na poshuki nevlovnogo pismennika.Chastina "Amalfitano" rozpovidaje pro depresivnogo profesora ispanskoji literaturi, jakij perejikhav do Santa-Terezi pislja smerti druzhini. U rozdili "Fejt" chitachi zustrichajutsja z amerikanskim zhurnalistom, jakij prijikhav u te zh misto, schob visvitliti bokserskij pojedinok. U chastini "Zlochini" ton postupovo temnishaje - sered ljudej chuti urivki rozmov zi zgadkami pro smerti. Vijavljajetsja, scho Santa-Tereza je mistsem masovikh vbivstv zhinok. Zakljuchnij rozdil "Arkhimboldi" rozpovidaje pro uchast pismennika u Drugij svitovij, zhittja u Kelni pislja vijni ta prijizd u vischezgadane meksikanske misto.Pro knigu "2666"U tsomu romani avtor pojednuje dvi svoji uljubleni temi - pismennitstvo j nasillja. V ostanni roki zhittja Bolano stav oderzhimij ubivstvami ta pochav z'jasovuvati pro nikh use, scho mig - vid sudovo-medichnikh aspektiv ubivstv do politiki ta geografiji Sjudad-Khuaresa, jake je prototipom dlja Santa-Terezi. V chetvertomu rozdili romanu avtor majsterno vikoristovuje tsi znannja, zobrazhajuchi vbivstva. Vin opisuje jikh kholodnoju, zhorstkoju movoju sudovo-medichnogo zvitu: de znajshli kozhne tilo, v jakomu vono bulo stani, jaka prichina smerti toscho."2666" je ostannim romanom vidatnogo chilijskogo pismennika Roberto Bolano. Knigu opublikuvali vzhe pislja smerti mittsja. Vin buv nevilikovno khvorij, tomu zamisliv napisati p'jat tematichno pov'jazanikh robit, schob jikh publikuvali pochergovo, j takim chinom sim'ja Roberto mala b za scho zhiti. Prote spadkojemtsi virishili vipustiti jikh odnim tomom.Pismennik stvorjuje svit, de nasilstvo, krasa ta bezgluzdist spivisnujut u trivozhnij garmoniji. V romani rozmivajetsja mezha mizh realnistju j vigadkoju, adzhe avtor vikoristovuje tekhniku dokumentalnoji literaturi, schob opisati schos ujavne, ale scho majzhe tochno vidobrazhaje realni podiji. Stil Roberto - zaplutanij, impulsivnij, bagatosharovij, u jakomu pojednujutsja suvorij realizm iz sjurrealistichnimi, majzhe primarnimi urivkami. Vin plavno peremikajetsja mizh zhanrami - vid literaturnoji satiri do detektivnoji prozi ta istorichnikh refleksij. Tsja kniga mozhe pripasti do smaku chitacham, jaki ljubljat skladnu prozu, scho doslidzhuje temni temi ta kidaje viklik zvichajnim formam opovidi, a takozh tim, khto tsikavitsja latinoamerikanskoju literaturoju.

Una de las mejores novelas del siglo XXI, seg n el New York Times y El Pa s en edici n especial ilustrada por Luis Scafati «No es exagerado decir que Bola o es un genio. Los detectives salvajes deber an otorgarle la inmortalidad . Washington Post «He sido cordialmente invitado a formar parte del realismo visceral. Por supuesto, he aceptado. No hubo ceremonia de iniciaci n. Mejor as . La b squeda en 1975 de la misteriosa escritora mexicana Ces rea Tinajero, desaparecida y olvidada en los a os posteriores a la revoluci n, sirve de inicio a un viaje sin descanso que llevan a cabo dos j venes poetas latinoamericanos, Arturo Belano y Ulises Lima. Durante varias d cadas y a trav s distintos pa ses, su aventura transcurre marcada por el amor, la muerte, el deseo de libertad, el humor y la literatura. S mbolo de la rebeld a y la necesidad de ruptura con la realidad establecida, sus vidas representan los anhelos de toda una generaci n. La obra de Bola o conversa con el arte del ilustrador argentino Luis Scafati en esta edici n especial ilustrada de una novela que gan los premios Herralde y R mulo Gallegos y est considerada una de las mejores novelas del siglo XXI por medios como The New York Times o El Pa s. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age. National BestsellerNew Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Ces rea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run. The explosive first long work by "the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time" (Ilan Stavans, Los Angeles Times), The Savage Detectives follows Belano and Lima through the eyes of the people whose paths they cross in Central America, Europe, Israel, and West Africa. This chorus includes the muses of visceral realism, the beautiful Font sisters; their father, an architect interned in a Mexico City asylum; a sensitive young follower of Octavio Paz; a foul-mouthed American graduate student; a French girl with a taste for the Marquis de Sade; the great-granddaughter of Leon Trotsky; a Chilean stowaway with a mystical gift for numbers; the anorexic heiress to a Mexican underwear empire; an Argentinian photojournalist in Angola; and assorted hangers-on, detractors, critics, lovers, employers, vagabonds, real-life literary figures, and random acquaintances. A polymathic descendant of Borges and Pynchon, Roberto Bola o traces the hidden connection between literature and violence in a world where national boundaries are fluid and death lurks in the shadow of the avant-garde. The Savage Detectives is a dazzling original, the first great Latin American novel of the twenty-first century.

"Full of moral and political urgency . . . Excellent." --Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian In 1938 Paris, Pierre Pain, a lonely bachelor and a beleaguered mesmerist, receives a telegram from his friend Madame Reynaud. An acquaintance of hers lies in a hospital bed beset with a mysterious--and apparently terminal--case of the hiccups, and she entreats Pain to cure him. Quietly in love with Reynaud, and buoyed by her faith in him, he agrees to see the patient, the exiled Peruvian poet C sar Vallejo. So sets off a nightmarish and labyrinthine chain of events that sees Pain racing, breathless, through the umbrous streets of Paris: He finds himself barred from approaching Vallejo's bedside. He is trailed by a ghostly pair of Spaniards who emerge from the shadows only to bribe him not to treat the poet. He encounters a former peer, now working across the Spanish border, whose career has taken a shockingly sinister turn. A hypnotic and surreal noir, Roberto Bola o's Monsieur Pain takes us on a vertiginous journey through conspiracy, occultism, and the unspeakable evil looming in our midst.