Böcker av Roberto Bolaño

Redan 1989 skrev Roberto Bolaño denna roman, som han före sin död började bearbeta på nytt och som nu ges ut postumt. Udo Berger är tysk mästare i krigsspel. Han reser med sin flickvän Ingeborg på semester till en liten ort på Costa Brava, men ist...

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ROBERTO BOLANOS karriär blev alltför kort - han dog 2003 i väntan på en levertransplantation, endast 50 år gammal. Den postumt utgivna samlingen DET ONDAS HEMLIGHET , som är den fjärde och avslutande delen i Tranans utgivning av Bolanos noveller, ...

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I tretton noveller tar Roberto Bolano oss med till några av de mörkaste utkanterna av sin litterära värld. Genom samlingen ljuder en sorgsen grundton, vare sig berättelserna utspelas på en fotbollsplan i Barcelona, i en badort i Mexiko eller i fot...

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"Mästerliga noveller" Aftonbladet De närmsta åren kommer Bokförlaget Tranan att ge ut de fyra novellsamlingar som Roberto Bolaño skrev under sin livstid, i översättning av Lena E. Heyman. Telefonsamtal är Roberto Bolaños första novellsam...

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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 för...

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Fyra litteraturvetare på jakt efter den mystiskt försvunne författaren Benno von Archimboldi; en mentalt instabil filosofilärare som hör röster och försöker skydda sin dotter från världens ondska; en sportjournalist som ställs öga mot öga med döde...

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With an introduction by Ben LernerThe truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.S...

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Den chilenske författaren Roberto Bolaño skapade under sin livstid en romanvärld med helt egna lagar, hallucinatorisk och skrämmande autentisk på en gång, där moståndet mot övergrepp och politiskt våld utgör själva bränslet i prosan. Inte minst ha...

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Det börjar i Mexico City 1975 och slutar i ett frågetecken i Sonora 1976. Däremellan: en kör av röster berättar om Arturo Belano och Ulises Lima, vänner, poeter och vagabonder. Berättarna har träffat dem någon gång mellan 1975 och 1996: i Mexico C...

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Redan 1989 skrev Roberto Bolaño denna roman, som han före sin död började bearbeta på nytt och som nu ges ut postumt. Udo Berger är tysk mästare i krigsspel. Han reser med sin flickvän Ingeborg på semester till en liten ort på Costa Brava, men ist...

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Three academics on the trail of a reclusive German author; a New York reporter on his first Mexican assignment; a widowed philosopher; a police detective in love with an elusive older woman--these are among the searchers drawn to the border city o...

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With an afterword by Natasha Wimmer.Winner of the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize. Natasha Wimmer's translation of The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and the New York Times. Ne...

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From one of "the most admired novelists in the Spanish-speaking world" (Susan Sontag) comes this highly charged semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America.

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Vid sidan av de stora verken 2666 och De vilda detektiverna skrev Roberto Bolaño också kortromaner. Isrinken (1993) och Avlägsen stjärna (1996) kretsar båda kring gåtfulla centralgestalter; den åtrådda isprinsessan Nuria Martí, samt den poetiske C...

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Written with burning intensity in the last years of Roberto Bolano's life, 2666 has been hailed across the world as the great writer's masterpiece, surpassing everything in imagination, beauty and scope. It is a novel on an astonishing scale from ...

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During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life. He believes he is dying and in his feveris...

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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 margi...

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Originally published: Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, c1996.

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Udo Berger, a failed writer, travels to a small resort on Spain's Costa Brava, where he befriends another German couple. But when one of his friends disappears after a night out with two sinister local characters, Udo's serene life is disrupted.

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With "2666," Bolano joins the ambitious overachievers of the 20th-century novel . . . who push the novel far past its conventional size and scope to encompass an entire era, deploying encyclopedic knowledge and stylistic verve to offer a...

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With an afterword by Natasha Wimmer. Winner of the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize. Natasha Wimmer's translation of The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and the New York Times. N...

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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 Bolano's Nazi Literature in the Americas details the lives of a rich cast ...

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When Nuria Marti, the beautiful Spanish figure skater, is suddenly dropped from the Olympic team, a besotted admirer builds a secret ice rink for her in the ruins of an old mansion on the outskirts of their seaside town. What he doesn't tell her i...

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In Roberto Bolano's The Third Reich war-games champion Udo Berger and his girlfriend Ingeborg are on holiday. There they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, and a band of shady locals. They have fun, see the sights, relax. Th...

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Antwerp was Roberto Bolano's first novel, though he chose not to publish it until 2002, more than twenty years after he'd written it. Set amidst the seedy hotels and deserted campsites on the Costa Brava, and filled with hapless girls, failed poet...

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One of the remarkable qualities of Roberto Bolano's short stories is that they seem to tell what Bolano called 'the secret story', 'the one we'll never know'. The Return contains thirteen unforgettable tales bent on returning to haunt you. Wide-ra...

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Unpredictable and daring, highly controlled and yet somehow haywire, the five short stories included here are some of Roberto Bolano's best. Whether they concern a stalwart rodent detective trying to investigate the mysterious deaths of his fellow...

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Roberto Bolano has been hailed a giant of Latin American literature and included in this one-of-a-kind collection is everything he was working on just before his death in 2003. A North American journalist in Paris is woken at 4 a.m. by a mysteriou...

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Perhaps surprisingly to some of his fiction fans, Roberto Bolano touted poetry as the superior art form. When asked, 'What makes you believe you're a better poet than a novelist?' Bolano replied, 'The poetry makes me blush less'. In 1993, fearing ...

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Roberto Bolano's own preferred literary persona was as a poet and Tres is his most inventive and bracing collection. As the title implies, the collection is composed of three sections. 'Prose from Autumn in Gerona', a cinematic series of prose poe...

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