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Biografisk notat
Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealism poetry movement. Described by the New York Times as ‘the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation’, he was the author of over twenty works, including The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998, and 2666, which posthumously won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty, just as his writing found global recognition.A spellbinder
Newseek
Roberto Bolaño was a game changer: his field was politics, poetry and melancholia . . . and his writing was always unparalleled
Mariana Enríquez
We savour all he has written as every offering is a portal into the elaborate terrain of his genius
- Patti Smith,
Roberto Bolaño’s work is a sprawling labyrinth of surprise, bold invention, and images that will live with you forever
- Chris Power,
Roberto Bolaño was a flat-out genius, one of the greatest writers of our time.
- Paul Auster,
The triumphant posthumous entrance of Roberto Bolaño into the English-language literary firmament has been one of the sensations of the decade
Sunday Times
Bolaño's voice demands attention
The New Yorker
It’s hard to think of a writer who has multiplied the possibilities more times than Roberto Bolaño.
Guardian
‘If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear...’
A rat policeman comes to the startling realisation that each rat is out for themselves. An elderly judge gives up his job in the city for an improbable return to the family farm in the Pampas. An elusive film-maker and the little-known Argentinian novelist whose work he's plagiarized for years, finally fall into confrontation.
Unpredictable and daring, highly controlled and yet somehow haywire, the five short stories included in The Insufferable Gaucho are some of Roberto Bolaño's best. In addition, two essays are included: provocative and often scathing, they too are alive with Bolaño's trademark humour, violence and utter faith in the power of the written word.
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‘An exemplary literary rebel’ New York Review of Books
‘A master of the short form’ Independent
‘Bolaño wrote with the high-voltage first-person braininess of a Saul Bellow and an extreme subversive vision of his own’ New York Times