Roberto Bolaño

Fyra litteraturvetare på jakt efter den undflyende, mystiskt försvunne författaren Benno von Archimboldi; en mentalt instabil filosofilärare som hör röster och försöker skydda sin dotter från världens ondska; en sportjournalist som istället för att bevaka boxning ställs öga mot öga med döden – vägarna har fört dem alla till Santa Teresa, en ökenstad vid gränsen mellan Mexiko och USA. En stad märkt av korruption, knarkhandel, svältlönejobb och prostitution – och en brottsvåg där hundratals kvinnor våldtagits, lemlästats och mördats utan att de skyldiga gripits.2666 är en svindlande resa in i den moderna civilisationens mörkaste hjärta. Med denna postumt utgivna roman, som blivit en sensation världen över, har Roberto Bolaño kommit att räknas som en av vår tids viktigaste författare.”Bolaño har skrivit in sig bland de odödliga” – Washington Post”en gränslös, helt enkelt vidunderlig roman” – Daniel Kehlmann, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”Ingen tvekan om saken, 2666 är ett verk av enorm betydelse … en sammansatt litterär upplevelse där författaren söker teckna ned sina mardrömmar medan han känner tiden löpa ut.” – El Mundo”hans tonfall pendlar mellan humor och totalt mörker, mellan sagans enkelhet och polisrapportens falska saklighet” – Le Magazine Littéraire

Featuring several mass-murdering authors, two fraternal writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring and a poet who crafts his lines in the air with sky writing, Roberto Bolaño's Nazi Literature in the Americas details the lives of a rich cast of characters from one of the most extraordinary imaginations in world literature. Written with sharp wit and virtuosic flair, this encyclopaedic group of fictional pan-American authors is the terrifyingly humorous and remarkably inventive masterpiece which made Bolaño famous throughout the Spanish-speaking world.

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: TOP TEN THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) Composed in the last years of Roberto Bola o's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of SantaTeresa--a fictional Ju rez--on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.

Kesyttömät etsivät on hämmästyttävä romaani, joka teki Roberto Bolanosta kansainvälisesti tunnetun kirjailijan. Taidokkaasti rakennettu teos kuvaa kahden modernin donquixoten tai myöhempien aikojen leopoldbloomin edesottamuksia. Arturo Belano ja Ulises Lima ovat maanalaisen kirjallisuusliikkeen viimeiset edustajat, jotka lähtevät tragikoomiselle matkalle synkkään todellisuuteen, joka muistuttaa ilkeän vinksahtaneesti arkimaailmaa, etsimään kirjallisuusliikkeensä innoittajaa, Sonoran autiomaahan kadonnutta Cesarea Tinajeroa. Kesyttömät etsivät on rehevä, uskalias, uraauurtava ja kunnianhimoinen romaani, jossa jorgeluisborgesmainen humoristinen ahdistavuus nivoutuu kutkuttavasti cortazarmaisen hersyvään outouteen. Samalla romaani on jännittävä salapoliisikertomus, jossa päällisin puolin arkiset arvoitukset herättävät uteliaisuutta, joka saa lukijan ahmimaan sivuja. Roberto Bolano syntyi Chilen pääkaupungissa Santiagossa vuonna 1953. Hän vietti lapsuutensa Chilessä ja Mexico Cityssä, jossa hän perusti infrarealistisen runousliikkeen. Hänen romaaninsa Kesyttömät etsivät voitti vuonna 1998 Herralde- ja Romulo Gallegos -kirjallisuuspalkinnot. Bolano kuoli vuonna 2003 Espanjassa 50-vuotiaana odottaessaan maksansiirtoa.

Amulet is a monologue, like Bolano's acclaimeddebut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is AuxilioLacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becomingthe "Mother of Mexican Poetry," hanging out with the youngpoets in the cafes and bars of the University. She's tall, thin, and blonde, and her favorite young poet in the 1970s is none other thanArturo Belano (Bolano's fictional stand-in throughout his books). As well as her young poets, Auxilio recalls three remarkable women: the melancholic young philosopher Elena, the exiled Catalan painterRemedios Varo, and Lilian Serpas, a poet who once slept with Che Guevara.And in the course of her imaginary visit to the house of Remedios Varo, Auxilio sees an uncanny landscape, a kind of chasm. This chasm reappearsin a vision at the end of the book: an army of children is marchingtoward it, singing as they go. The children are the idealistic youngLatin Americans who came to maturity in the '70s, and the last wordsof the novel are: "Andthat song is our amulet."

This Herralde Award-winning novel chronicles a strange journey that follows the steps of two Latin American poets, Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, as they struggle to escape from an unknown past, in a novel that follows their odyssey as seen through the eyes of the people whose paths they cross in Central America, Europe, Israel, and West Africa. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Written as a biographical dictionary of twentieth- and twenty-first-century contributors who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies, a series of fictional character portraits is thematically organized under such headings as "Forerunners and Figures of the Anti-Enlightenment" and "North American Poets."

Fourteen dark tales about the tragic qualities of exile feature protagonists who are struggling with marginal lives and private, often ill-fated, quests, in a collection set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe. Reprint.

The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions.For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a college poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle becomes the silent hand behind every evil act in the darkness of Pinochet's regime. The narrator, unable to stop himself, tries to track Ruiz-Tagle down, and sees signs of his activity over and over again. A corrosive, mocking humor sparkles within Bolano's darkest visions of Chile under Pinochet. In Bolano's world there's a big graveyard and there's a big graveyard laugh. (He once described his novel By Night in Chile as "a tale of terror, a situation comedy, and a combination pastoral-gothic novel.")Many Chilean authors have written about the "bloody events of the early Pinochet years, the abductions and murders," Richard Eder commented in the The New York Times "None has done it in so dark and glittering a fashion as Roberto Bolano."